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In 1959, Philippe starred in Les liaisons dangereuses, a French film adaptation of the 1782 novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The film was directed by Roger Vadim and starred Philippe as the Vicomte de Valmont, a womanizing libertine who is tasked by the Marquise de Merteuil to seduce the virtuous young Madame de Tourvel.