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Abélard, Peter, 1–9, 13, 15, 118, 144, 206, 208, 311, 325
Ackerman, Diane, 45–46
Adams, Abigail, 156
Adams, John, 156
Adèle de Champagne, 23, 33
Adler, Laure, 338
Adolphe (Constant), 175, 176–78, 186
Aeneid, The (Virgil), 14, 42
Aeschylus, 96
Agatha, Saint, 8
Agostinelli, Alfred, 282
d’Agoult, Marie, 215
Algren, Nelson, 319
Allégret, Marc, 261, 262
amour fou, 154–55
amour-passion, 108–12, 122
Andreas Capellanus, 15–16, 30–32, 33, 271
Andromaque (Racine), 95
Angèle et Tony, 352
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 12, 226
Anne, Duchesse d’Étampes, 52
Anne of Austria, 58
Antoine, André, 239
Armand de Caillavet, Madame, 289
Arnold, Matthew, 215
Arthur, King, 24, 25, 26
Art of Courtly Love, The (Andreas Capellanus), 15–16, 30–31
Art of Love, The (Ovid), 14
Athalie (Racine), 95
Audry, Colette, 326
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Stein), 304
Badinter, Elisabeth, 44, 45
Badinter, Robert, 45
Bair, Deirdre, 319
Baise-moi (Despentes), 350
Baldwin, James, 263
“Ballade of the Ladies of Bygone Times” (Villon), 4
Balzac, Honoré de, 173, 182–86, 190, 194, 199, 211, 363
Banquet Years, The (Shattuck), 238
Barney, Natalie, 255, 286–87, 302, 303
Bassompierre, François de, 53–54, 361
Bâtarde, La (Leduc), 306–8, 309
Beaumarchais, Pierre, 170, 364
Beauvoir, Hélène de, 325
Beauvoir, Simone de, 41, 308–9, 311–27, 362
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, 313, 324
The Prime of Life, 315
The Second Sex, 312, 324, 325
Beckett, Samuel, 313
Béjart, Armande, 82
Belboeuf, “Missy,” Marquise de, 297–301
Bentley, Toni, 350
Bergerac, Cyrano de, 241, 252–53, 363
Bernart de Ventadorn, 11, 18
Bernhardt, Sarah, 240
Bible, 14, 296
bisexuality, 250, 256, 278, 285, 323
Bizet, Georges, 195
Borde, Constance, 325
Bost, Jacques-Laurent, 319–20
Boucher, François, 104
Boufflers, Chevalier de, 362
Bradstreet, Anne, 70–71
breast-feeding, 171
Brizendine, Louann, 6
Brontë, Charlotte, 215
Brooks, Romaine, 286, 287
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 215
Bruni, Carla, 43–44
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of, 133
Buzot, François, 168–69
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 201–2, 204
Camus, Albert, 316
Candide (Voltaire), 170
Capellanus, Andreas, 15–16, 30–32, 33, 271
Carmen (Mérimée), 195
Catherine the Great, 142
Center for Research on Women, 70, 325
Cervantes, Miguel de, 347
Ces amours-là, 355, 356–57
Chamfort, Nicolas, 126
Champmeslé, Marie, 95
Chansons de Bilitis (Louÿs), 287
Charcot, Jean-Martin, 272
Charles, Julie, 193
Charles X, King, 195
Charterhouse of Parma, The (Stendhal), 178, 179, 347
Chateaubriand, René de, 204
Châtellerault, Vicomtesse de, 17
Chatiron, Hippolyte, 198
chess, 22
children, 47, 345
Chirac, Bernadette, 43
Chirac, Jacques, 43
Chopin, Frédéric, 199, 215, 363
Chrétien de Troyes, 15, 23–30, 32, 33, 38
Christianity, 4–5, 15, 32, 35, 97
Christine de Pizan, 41
civil unions, 344
Cixous, Hélène, 41
Clarissa Harlowe (Richardson), 115
Claudel, Paul, 262–63, 344
Claudine at School (Colette), 288, 290–93, 197
Claudine in Love (Colette), 297
Claudine in Paris (Colette), 289, 293–96, 299
Claudine Married (Colette), 285, 293–94, 297
Clef d’amors, La, 361
Clélie, histoire romaine (Scudéry), 61
Clinton, Bill, 42
Cocteau, Jean, 263
Colet, Louise, 219–20, 230–31
Colette, 41, 255, 256, 282, 286–302, 306, 362
Claudine at School, 288, 290–93, 297
Claudine in Love, 297
Claudine in Paris, 289, 293–96, 299
Claudine Married, 285, 293–94, 297
The Vagabond, 300–301
Colette, Adèle Eugénie Sidonie “Sido,” 288, 289, 290, 295, 298
Condé, Prince de, 54
Condorcet, Antoine Nicolas de, 132, 153, 154, 171
Condorcet, Sophie de, 170–71
Confession d’un enfant du siècle, La (Musset), 211–14
Confessions (Rousseau), 116, 173–74, 253
Conflit: La femme et la mère, Le (Badinter), 44
Conon de Béthune, 16, 33–35, 251
Constant, Benjamin, 174–76, 182
Adolphe, 175, 176–78, 186
Contes d’Espagne et d’Italie (Musset), 195
Corneille, Pierre, 76, 149
Corydon (Gide), 262
Courbet, Gustave, 224
courtly love, 11–48, 52, 68, 173
courts, 22, 49
Cousin, Victor, 230
Crébillon fils, 107, 127, 129
The Wayward Head and Heart, 112–15, 139, 163, 173, 212
crystallization, 348
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), 98, 235, 239–47, 343
d’Albon, Claude, 137
d’Albon, Hilaire, 137, 138
d’Albon, Julie-Claude, 136–37, 138
d’Alembert, Jean le Rond, 132–36, 140–46, 148, 151, 153–55, 157
Dangerous Liaisons (Laclos), 103, 116, 123–27, 129, 163, 212, 361
Dante Alighieri, 126, 347, 362
Danton, Georges, 162–63
Darblay, Pierre, 72, 237
Daudet, Léon, 282
de Botton, Alain, 69
de Bourges, Michel, 199, 214–15
Debussy, Claude, 289
de Charrière, Isabelle, 174
de Gouges, Olympe, 170
de Grandsagne, Stéphane Ajasson, 200
Delaborde, Sophie-Victoire, 196, 197–98
Delacroix, Eugène, 194–95, 211, 215
Delafosse, Léon, 282
Delamare, Delphine, 230–31
De l’amour (Stendhal), 220
Delanoë, Bertrand, 344
Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie, 287
de Pougy, Liane, 255, 286
de Rougemont, Denis, 42
Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline, 41
Descartes, René, 68
de Sèze, Aurélien, 200
Despentes, Virginie, 350–51
de Staël, Germaine, 41, 174–78, 362
de Staël-Holstein, Baron, 175
d’Estaing, Giscard, 43
Destouches, Louis-Camus, 141
de Warens, Louise, 174, 178
d’Holbach, Baron, 144
Diane de Poitiers, 56, 173, 362
Dickens, Charles, 183
Diderot, Denis, 132, 133, 253
Die, Comtesse de, 18–19
d’Indy, Vincent, 289
Divine Comedy (Dante), 126
Don Juan (Molière), 101, 364
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p; Dorval, Marie, 256
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 215
Douglas, Alfred, Lord, 249–50, 257
du Barry, Madame, 104, 106, 170
du Châtelet, Madame, 362
du Deffand, Madame, 139–42, 143, 145, 170, 189
Dudevant, Casimir, 198, 199–200, 206, 208, 214–15
Dudevant, Maurice, 200, 206, 208, 214
Dudevant, Solange, 200, 206, 208, 214
Dumas, Alexandre, 194
du Parc, Thérèse, 95
Dupin, Maurice, 196, 198
Dupin de Francueil, Madame, 196, 198
Duras, Marguerite, 41, 329–39, 362
Eclogues (Virgil), 262
Égarements du coeur et de l’esprit, Les (The Wayward Head and Heart) (Crébillon fils), 112–15, 139, 163, 173, 212
Eleanor of Aquitaine, 18, 21, 22, 33
Elementary Particles, The (Houellebecq), 349
Eliot, George, 215
Elkaïm, Arlette, 322
Émile (Rousseau), 116
Encyclopédie, 133, 253
Encyclopédistes, 132, 149
Enlightenment, 133, 145, 153, 194
Enthoven, Raphaël, 43–44
“Equitan” (Marie de France), 36–37
Ermengarde, Vicomtesse of Narbonne, 23
Ernaux, Annie, 41
Esther (Racine), 95
Euripides, 90–91, 95–96
Fabius, Laurent, 43
family, 47
fathers, 99
Fauré, Gabriel, 289
Faÿ, Bernard, 306
Female Brain, The (Brizendine), 6
Feydeau, Georges, 238–39
film, 351–57, 364–65
Flaubert, Gustave, 190, 215, 235, 236, 347
Madame Bovary, 12, 219–32, 362
Fontainebleau, 237
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 133
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 104
France, Anatole, 289
François I, King, 52–53, 362
Franklin, Benjamin, 156
Frederick II, King, 133, 142
French Revolution, 99, 127, 159–71, 175
Freud, Sigmund, 178, 179, 180, 188, 272, 307
Fruits of the Earth (Gide), 257–58
Fuller, Margaret, 216
Gabrielle d’Estrées, 53
Gace Brulé, 20, 36
gallantry, 49–74, 75, 98, 101, 104–8, 128, 171
change in meaning of word, 105
Molière and, 78, 79, 81, 83, 84–85, 88–89, 98
Gauthiers-Villars, Willy, 289–90, 294, 297, 298
Gautier, Théophile, 194
Gauvain, Sir, 26
gay nineties, 235–38
General Essay on Tactics, A (Guibert), 148
Genet, Jean, 263
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