How the French Invented Love
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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
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
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
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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