How the French Invented Love
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How the French Invented Love

Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

How the French Invented Love

Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

About this book

"Absolutely marvelous…lively and learned….Marilyn Yalom's book is a distinguished contribution to our experience of a great literature, as well as an endearing memoir." —Diane Johnson, author of Lulu in Marrakech and Le Divorce

"[An] enchanting tour of French literature—from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

How the French Invented Love is an entertaining and masterful history of love à la française by acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom. Spanning the Middle Ages to the present, Yalom explores a love-obsessed culture through its great works of literature—from Moliere's comic love to the tragic love of Racine, from the existential love of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to the romanticism of George Sand and Alfred de Musset. A thoroughly engaging homage to French culture and literature interlaced with the author's delicious personal anecdotes, How the French Invented Love is ideal for fans of Alain de Botton, Adam Gopnik, and Simon Schama.

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Information

Publisher
Harper
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780062048318
eBook ISBN
9780062048325
Topic
History
Subtopic
French History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Epigraph
  2. Contents
  3. A Note to the Reader
  4. Prologue: Abélard and Héloïse, Patron Saints of French Lovers
  5. Chapter One: Courtly Love: How the French Invented Romance
  6. Chapter Two: Gallant Love: La Princesse de Clèves
  7. Chapter Three: Comic Love, Tragic Love: Molière and Racine
  8. Chapter Four: Seduction and Sentiment: Prévost, Crébillon fils, Rousseau, and Laclos
  9. Chapter Five: Love Letters: Julie de Lespinasse
  10. Chapter Six: Republican Love: Elisabeth Le Bas and Madame Roland
  11. Chapter Seven: Yearning for the Mother: Constant, Stendhal, and Balzac
  12. Chapter Eight: Love Among the Romantics: George Sand and Alfred de Musset
  13. Chapter Nine: Romantic Love Deflated: Madame Bovary
  14. Chapter Ten: Love in the Gay Nineties: Cyrano de Bergerac
  15. Chapter Eleven: Love Between Men: Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde, and Gide
  16. Chapter Twelve: Desire and Despair: Proust’s Neurotic Lovers
  17. Chapter Thirteen: Lesbian Love: Colette, Gertrude Stein, and Violette Leduc
  18. Chapter Fourteen: Existentialists in Love: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
  19. Chapter Fifteen: The Dominion of Desire: Marguerite Duras
  20. Chapter Sixteen: Love in the Twenty-first Century
  21. Epilogue
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Notes
  24. Selected Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. Back Ad
  27. Excerpt from The Social Sex
  28. About the Author
  29. Books by Marilyn Yalom
  30. Credits
  31. Copyright
  32. About the Publisher