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An edition of How the French invented love (2012)

How the French invented love

nine hundred years of passion and romance

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Acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom distills the central tenets of the Gallic gospel of love from her reading of the great French literary works, as well as from the people she has known and her own memories of France, examining almost a thousand years of divine culture in search of the intimate moments that reveal how the particularly French concept of l'amour has endured and evolved.

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Harper Perennial
Language
English
Pages
400

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Subjects
Social life and customs, French National characteristics, Love, History and criticism, French literature, Man-woman relationships, Love in literature, Moral conditions, Sex in literature, Sex customs, History
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France

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How the French invented love: nine hundred years of passion and romance
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Table of Contents

Abélard and Héloïse, patron saints of French lovers
Courtly love : how the French invented romance
Gallant love : La Princesse de Clèves
Comic love, tragic love : Molière and Racine
Seduction and sentiment : Prévost, Crébillon fils, Rousseau, and Laclos
Love letters : Julie de Lespinasse
Republican love : Elisabeth Le Bas and Madame Roland
Yearning for the mother : Constant, Stendahl, and Balzac
Love among the Romantics : George Sand and Alfred de Musset
Romantic love deflated : Madame Bovary
Love in the Gay Nineties : Cyrano de Bergerac
Love between men : Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde, and Gide
Desire and despair : Proust's neurotic lovers
Lesbian love : Colette, Gertrude Stein, and Violette Leduc
Existentialists in love : Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
The dominion of desire : Marguerite Duras
Love in the twenty-first century.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-390) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
944, 306.77/0944
Library of Congress
HQ18.F8 Y35 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 400 p. :
Number of pages
400

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OL25604195M
Internet Archive
howfrenchinvente00mari
ISBN 10
0062048317
ISBN 13
9780062048318
LCCN
2013370783
OCLC/WorldCat
777624681

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