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Index
Epigraph
Contents
A Note to the Reader
Prologue: Abélard and Héloïse, Patron Saints of French Lovers
Chapter One: Courtly Love: How the French Invented Romance
Chapter Two: Gallant Love: La Princesse de Clèves
Chapter Three: Comic Love, Tragic Love: Molière and Racine
Chapter Four: Seduction and Sentiment: Prévost, Crébillon fils, Rousseau, and Laclos
Chapter Five: Love Letters: Julie de Lespinasse
Chapter Six: Republican Love: Elisabeth Le Bas and Madame Roland
Chapter Seven: Yearning for the Mother: Constant, Stendhal, and Balzac
Chapter Eight: Love Among the Romantics: George Sand and Alfred de Musset
Chapter Nine: Romantic Love Deflated: Madame Bovary
Chapter Ten: Love in the Gay Nineties: Cyrano de Bergerac
Chapter Eleven: Love Between Men: Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde, and Gide
Chapter Twelve: Desire and Despair: Proust’s Neurotic Lovers
Chapter Thirteen: Lesbian Love: Colette, Gertrude Stein, and Violette Leduc
Chapter Fourteen: Existentialists in Love: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Chapter Fifteen: The Dominion of Desire: Marguerite Duras
Chapter Sixteen: Love in the Twenty-first Century
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Also by Marilyn Yalom
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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