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How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

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by Marilyn Yalom


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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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