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How the French Invented Love

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by Marilyn Yalom


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  Index

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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, Samu
el, 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

 

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