How the French Invented Love (48 page)

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

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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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

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Credits

Cover design by Robin Bilardello

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HOW THE FRENCH INVENTED LOVE
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