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

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by Marilyn Yalom


  Geoffrin, Madame, 145, 170, 189

  Gide, André, 255, 256–63, 264, 268, 278, 282, 287, 363

  Gide, Catherine, 263

  Girard, Abbé, 104

  Girard, René, 222, 347

  Godard, Jean-Luc, 351

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 362

  Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de, 108, 220

  Goudeket, Maurice, 301

  Grand Hôtel, Cabourg, 237

  Gray, Francine du Plessix, 325

  Gréco, Juliette, 313

  Greece, ancient, 14, 90, 96, 144, 287

  Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 164

  Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von, 146, 153

  Guibert, Jacques Antoine Hippolyte de, 132–34, 137, 148–57

  “Guigemar” (Marie de France), 37–38

  Guilhem de Poitiers, 19

  Guinevere, 12, 15, 24–30, 33, 68, 155, 362

  Hahn, Reynaldo, 272, 282

  Hall, Radclyffe, 293

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 42

  Heine, Heinrich, 194

  Héloïse d’Argenteuil, 1–9, 13, 15, 118, 206, 208, 311, 325, 362

  Helvétius, Claude, 144, 156

  Helvétius, Madame, 156

  Hemingway, Ernest, 302, 303

  Henri I, Count of Champagne, 22, 33

  Henri II, King, 53, 56, 173, 362

  Henri III, King, 251

  Henri IV, King, 53–54, 361, 362

  Henric, Jacques, 350

  Henriette d’Entragues, 53

  Henry II, King, 18, 21

  Hériot, Auguste, 301

  Hernani (Hugo), 195

  Herzen, Alexander, 215–16

  Hippolytus (Euripides), 90–91, 95–96

  Histoire de ma vie (Sand), 197

  Historia calamitatum (Abélard), 1, 5

  Hollande, François, 44

  Homme et une femme, Un, 355, 365

  homosexuality, 278, 281–82, 305–6, 344

  female, 255–56, 279–80, 285–309

  male, 249–64

  Houellebecq, Michel, 349, 350

  How Proust Can Change Your Life (de Botton), 69

  Hugo, Victor, 194, 195, 199, 200, 211, 215, 255

  Hume, David, 143, 144

  Ibsen, Henrik, 239

  Idylle Saphique (de Pougy), 286

  Illusion conjugale, L’ (Assous), 343–44

  Immoralist, The (Gide), 257–60, 261

  Indiana (Sand), 199, 201–5

  Intimate Journal (Sand), 191, 209

  Isabelle de Hainaut, 33

  Iseult, 12, 33, 68, 155, 343, 362

  “It Was Just One of Those Things” (Porter), 3–4

  Jagger, Mick, 43

  Jasinski, René, 221

  Jeanson, Francis, 316

  Jefferson, Thomas, 156

  Jeu de l’amour et du hasard, Le (Marivaux), 71

  Jour de souffrance (Millet), 350

  Jouvenel, Bertrand de, 301

  Jouvenel, Colette de, 301

  Jouvenel, Henri de, 301

  Joyce, James, 304

  Julie, or The New Eloise (Rousseau), 103, 112, 115–23, 124, 125, 126, 134, 146–47, 167, 168, 169, 180, 347, 362

  Justine (de Sade), 127

  King Kong théorie (Despentes), 350–51

  Königsmark, Aurore de, 198

  Kosakiewicz, Olga, 317–18, 319–20

  Kristeva, Julia, 349

  Labé, Louise, 41

  La Boétie, Étienne de, 251–52

  “Lac, Le” (Lamartine), 193–94

  Lacan, Jacques, 98

  Laclos, Choderlos de, 107, 129

  Dangerous Liaisons, 103, 116, 123–27, 129, 163, 212, 361

  La Fayette, Comte de, 58

  La Fayette, Madame de, 41, 101

  La Princesse de Clèves, 49, 55–72, 76, 90, 95, 100, 107, 168, 232, 353–54, 363

  La Fontaine, Jean de, 104, 139, 153

  Lamartine, Alphonse de, 193–94, 362

  Lamblin, Bernard, 321

  Lamblin, Bianca Bienenfeld, 320, 321–22

  Lancelot, 12, 15, 24–30, 33, 68, 155, 362

  Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart (Chrétien de Troyes), 25–30, 32, 38

  language, 98, 363–64

  La Rochefoucauld, François de, 55, 68

  Laumond, Jean-Claude, 43

  La Vallière, Louise de, 57, 82

  Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 171

  Lavoisier, Marie-Anne, 171

  Le Bas, Elisabeth, 159, 160–67, 169, 171

  Le Bas, Philippe, 160–67, 171

  Le Bon, Sylvie, 323

  Leduc, Violette, 41, 306–9, 360

  Leibniz, Gottfried, 170

  Lélia (Sand), 204–6

  Lelouch, Claude, 351, 355–57, 365

  Lemaire, Ria, 40

  lesbian love, 255–56, 279–80, 285–309

  Lesnes, Elisabeth, 19

  Lespinasse, Julie de, 108, 129, 131–57, 168, 170, 189, 209, 229–30, 362

  Leszczynska, Marie, 106

  letters, 131–32, 155–57

  Letters from a Voyager (Sand), 207–8

  Lettres galantes et philosophiques (Saint-Mard), 106

  Levy, Harriet, 303

  Lévy, Justine, 44

  Lewinsky, Monica, 42

  Liaisons dangereuses, Les (Laclos), 103, 116, 123–27, 129, 163, 212, 361

  libertinage, 107–8, 113–14, 115, 127, 128–29, 347

  Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix), 194–95

  Life of Henry Brulard, The (Stendhal), 178–79

  Lily of the Valley, The (Balzac), 173, 183–86, 363

  Liszt, Franz, 211, 215

  Lorrain, Jean, 255

  Louis VII, King, 18, 22, 23, 33

  Louis XIII, King, 252

  Louis XIV, King, 53, 57, 58, 71, 79, 81, 82, 85, 89, 90, 100, 105, 106, 128, 194, 251, 362

  Louis XV, King, 53, 104, 105, 106, 107, 362

  Louis-Philippe, King, 195

  Louÿs, Pierre, 255, 287

  love-as-sickness, 271

  love letters, 132, 155–57

  Lover, The (Duras), 329, 333–39

  lovesickness, 271

  Lubin, Georges, 216–17

  Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 12, 219–32, 362

  Maintenon, Madame de, 57, 106

  Male Brain, The (Brizendine), 6

  Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila, 325

  Man and a Woman, A, 355, 365

  Manceau, Alexandre, 215, 363

  Mancini, Mademoiselle de, 57

  Manon Lescaut (Prévost), 109–12, 115, 129, 272

  Manuscrit de Mme Le Bas (Le Bas), 159, 160–67

  Marat, Jean-Paul, 161

  Maria Theresa of Spain, 57

  Marie-Antoinette, 148, 255

  Marie de Champagne, 15, 22–23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 33, 60, 71, 271

  Marie de France, 16, 36–38, 41

  Marivaux, Pierre de, 71

  Marmontel, Jean-François, 144, 146, 153

  marriage:

  arranged, 60

  lifelong, 344–45

  Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais), 170, 364

  Martial, Philippe, 238

  Mary, Virgin, 17, 20, 29

  Matisse, Henri, 302

  Maupassant, Guy de, 220, 232–33

  Maximes (La Rochefoucauld), 55

  Médicis, Catherine de, 56

  Médicis, Marie de, 53

  Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Beauvoir), 313, 324

  Mendès, Catulle, 289

  Mérimée, Prosper, 194, 195

  Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 316

  Mickiewicz, Adam, 194

  Mill, John Stuart, 215

  Millet, Catherine, 350

  Misanthrope, The (Molière), 85–89, 100, 107, 111, 272, 343

  Mitterrand, Danielle, 43

  Mitterrand, François, 43, 260

  Mitterand, Frédéric, 260–61

  Moderato Cantabile (Duras), 332, 333

  Molière, 76, 77–89, 90, 98, 99, 100, 101, 153, 364

  The Misanthrope, 85–89,
100, 107, 111, 272, 343

  Montaigne, Michel de, 68, 251–52

  Montespan, Madame de, 57

  Montesquieu, 133, 145

  Montesquiou, Robert de, 282

  Montherlant, Henry de, 263

  Montmorency, Mademoiselle de, 54, 361

  Montsauge, Madame de, 148

  Mora, Gonçalve de, 133–35, 145–51, 154, 155

  mother figures, 173–90

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 364

  Musset, Alfred de, 194, 195, 199, 204, 206–14, 230, 232, 362

  Napoleon I, 99, 148, 175

  Narbonne, Vicomte de, 175

  Natural History of Love, A (Ackerman), 45–46

  Necker, Jacques, 175

  Necker, Suzanne, 175

  Nerval, Gérard de, 194

  New York Times, 325, 350

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 258

  No Exit (Sartre), 277

  Nous, Princesses de Clèves, 353–55

  Nouvelle Héloïse, La (Julie, or The New Eloise) (Rousseau), 103, 112, 115–23, 124, 125, 126, 134, 146–47, 167, 168, 169, 180, 347, 362

  Nouvel Observateur, 323

  “On Friendship” (Montaigne), 251–52

  On Love (Stendhal), 220, 347–48

  Ovid, 14

  Ozon, François, 352

  Pagello, Pietro, 207–8

  Pamela (Richardson), 115, 124

  Paris, 237–38, 263–64, 341

  Partage de midi (Claudel), 344

  Pascal, Blaise, 100

  Patterson, Yolanda, 325

  Peyrefitte, Roger, 263

  Phèdre (Racine), 75, 89–101, 111, 152, 155

  Philippe Auguste, King, 33, 251

  Philippe d’Orléans, 106, 139

  Physiologie de l’amour (Darblay), 72, 237

  Piaf, Edith, 155

  Picasso, Pablo, 302, 303

  Pingeot, Anne, 43

  Plato, 14, 287

  Pompadour, Madame de, 104, 106, 170

  Porter, Cole, 3–4

  Potiche, 352–53

  précieuses, 61–62, 63, 77

  Précieuses ridicules, Les (Molière), 77–79

  Prévost, Abbé, 107, 115, 129, 131

  Manon Lescaut, 109–12, 115, 129, 272

  Prime of Life, The (Beauvoir), 315

  Princesse de Clèves, La (de La Fayette), 49, 55–72, 76, 90, 95, 100, 107, 168, 232, 353–54, 363

  Proust, Adrien, 272

  Proust, Marcel, 38, 237, 256, 263, 265–83, 288, 289, 306

  Psyché (La Fontaine), 104

  Puccini, Giacomo, 109

  Queensberry, Marquess of, 249

  Racine, Jean, 76, 145, 153, 332

  Phèdre, 75, 89–101, 111, 152, 155

  Raimbaut d’Orange, 19

  Raoul-Duval, Georgie, 296–97

  Red and the Black, The (Stendhal), 178, 179–82, 186–87, 212, 347

  Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 255, 256, 265–83

  repression, 347

  Richardson, Samuel, 115, 124, 126, 131, 155

  Rien de grave (Lévy), 44

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 254–55, 258

  Robespierre, Augustin, 161, 166

  Robespierre, Charlotte, 161

  Robespierre, Maximilien, 160–66

  Rohmer, Eric, 98, 351, 363

  Roland, Jean-Marie, 168, 169

  Roland, Madame, 160, 167–69, 171

  Roman de gare, 355–56

  romantic love, 191–217, 220, 227, 232, 233, 235, 246, 347

  Rome, ancient, 39

  Rondeaux, Madeleine, 258, 261, 263

  Rose and Blanche (Sand and Sandeau), 200–201

  Rostand, Edmond, 239–40

  Cyrano de Bergerac, 98, 235, 239–47, 343

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 89, 107, 116, 126, 129, 133, 155, 169–70, 171, 173–74, 178, 182, 199, 213

  Confessions, 116, 173–74, 253

  Julie, or The New Eloise, 103, 112, 115–23, 124, 125, 126, 134, 146–47, 167, 168, 169, 180, 347, 362

  Rowley, Hazel, 317

  Sabran, Comtesse de, 362

  Sade, Marquis de, 127, 128

  sadism, 127–28

  Sagan, Françoise, 41

  Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 194, 210–11

  Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 327

  Saint-Mard, Rémond de, 106

  Saint-Preux (Julie, or The New Eloise), 115, 117, 118, 120–22, 124, 129, 134, 147, 168, 169, 362

  Saison en Enfer, Une (A Season in Hell) (Rimbaud), 249, 254

  Sand, George, 41, 155, 190, 191, 194–217, 230, 232, 255–56, 362–63

  Sandeau, Jules, 200–201

  Sanford, Mark, 43

  Sappho, 14, 286, 287

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 258, 277, 311–27

  Sarkozy, Nicolas, 44, 56, 69, 260–61, 353, 359

  Sauder, Anne, 353

  Sauder, Regis, 353–54

  Saxe, Maurice de, 198

  Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 42

  Schioloni, Elaine, 365

  School for Husbands, The (Molière), 79–81, 82

  School for Wives, The (Molière), 75, 79, 82–84, 85, 88

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 43

  Schwarzer, Alice, 322

  Schwob, Marcel, 289

  Scudéry, Madeleine de, 61

  Season in Hell, A (Rimbaud), 249, 254

  Sebastian, Saint, 8

  Second Sex, The (Beauvoir), 312, 324, 325

  sensibility, 115, 119, 155

  sentimental education, 173–74

  sentimental love, 114, 116, 128–29, 155, 164, 220

  Sexual Life of Catherine M., The (Millet), 350

  Shakespeare, William, 38, 86, 268, 317

  Shattuck, Roger, 238

  Simone de Beauvoir Society, 325

  Sinclair, Anne, 360

  Socrates, 144, 287

  Sollers, Philippe, 341, 346–49, 350

  Song of Roland, 14

  Songs of Bilitis (Louÿs), 287

  Sophocles, 96

  Sorel, Julien (The Red and the Black), 179–80, 212, 362

  Spain, 195

  Stanford University, 70, 74, 325

  Stein, Gertrude, 286, 302–6

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 304

  Stein, Leo, 302

  Stendhal, 178–82, 220, 347–48

  The Red and the Black, 178, 179–82, 186–87, 212, 347

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 216

  Strauss-Kahn, Dominique, 359–60, 365

  Strindberg, August, 239

  Taaffe, John, 141, 142

  Talleyrand, Abbé de, 175

  Tartuffe (Molière), 101

  Temps Modernes, Les, 316

  Tencin, Madame de, 141

  10:30 on a Summer Night (Duras), 329–31

  Thackeray, William, 215

  theater, 75–77, 238–39, 343–44

  Théobald de Champagne, 33

  Toklas, Alice B., 286, 302–6

  Trésor d’amour (Sollers), 341, 346–49

  Tristan, 12, 33, 68, 155, 343, 362

  Tristan and Isolde (Wagner), 33

  Truffaut, François, 351

  Turgenev, Ivan, 215

  Vagabond, The (Colette), 300–301

  Valéry, Paul, 257

  “Vallon, Le” (Lamartine), 193

  Valmont (Les Liaisons dangereuses), 123–26, 149, 163, 212, 361, 362

  van Rysselberghe, Elizabeth, 263

  Venetti, Dolores, 318–19

  Verlaine, Paul, 254–55

  Viala, Alain, 72

  Vian, Boris, 322

  Vian, Michelle, 322

  Viardot, Pauline, 215

  Vichy, Gasparde de, 138, 139

  Vigny, Alfred de, 194, 230

  Villars, Meg, 298

  Villon, François, 4

  Virgil, 14, 42, 262

  Virgin Mary, 17, 20, 29

  virtue, 119–20, 171

  Vivien, Renée, 287

  Voltaire, 116, 133, 139, 140, 144, 145–46, 153, 170, 253, 362

  Wagner, Richard, 33
r />   Wague, Georges, 298–99

  Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 313

  Walpole, Horace, 189

  Watteau, Jean-Antoine, 103–4

  Wayward Head and Heart, The (Crébillon fils), 112–15, 139, 163, 173, 212

  Well of Loneliness, The (Hall), 293

  Whitman, Walt, 216

  Wilde, Oscar, 249–50, 255–58, 278, 306

  William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, 16–18, 19

  Woman of the Eighteenth Century, The (Goncourt brothers), 108

  women working outside the home, 345–46

  Woolf, Virginia, 304

  World Masterpieces Since the Renaissance (Mack, ed.), 69–70

  Wright, Richard, 316

  Yalom, Irvin, 116–17, 178

  Yvain (Chrétien de Troyes), 24

  Zola, Émile, 220, 233, 235

  About the Author

  MARILYN YALOM is a former professor of French and presently a senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She is the author of widely acclaimed books such as A History of the Breast, A History of the Wife, and Birth of the Chess Queen, as well as The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History Through our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds, which includes a portfolio of photographs by her son Reid S. Yalom. She lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband, the psychiatrist and author Irvin D. Yalom.

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  Also by Marilyn Yalom

  The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds, with photographs by Reid S. Yalom

  Birth of the Chess Queen

  A History of the Wife

  A History of the Breast

  Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women’s Memory

  Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness

  Le temps des orages: Aristocrates, bourgeoises, et paysannes racontent

  Credits

  Cover design by Robin Bilardello

  Cover photograph © Leonard Mccombe/Getty Images

  Copyright

  The names and identifying characteristics of some of the individuals whose stories are told in this book have been changed to protect their privacy.

  HOW THE FRENCH INVENTED LOVE. Copyright © 2012 by Marilyn Yalom. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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