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
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
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