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title: "How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance – A Literary and Cultural History Across the Centuries"
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# How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance – A Literary and Cultural History Across the Centuries

**Brand:** marilyn yalom
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- **What is this?** How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance – A Literary and Cultural History Across the Centuries by marilyn yalom
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## Customer Reviews

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    A look at love,the French way
  

*by T***E on Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2013*

Marilyn Yalom's HOW THE FRENCH INVENTED LOVE is itself an inventive look at the long tradition of love in French life. The book begins with the famous treatises on courtly love and romance, from that of the 12th century  William IX, Duke of Aquitaine through the troubadour traditions of later centuries, to the great love poems like Tristan and Iseult, and guides to lovemaking like Andreas Caopellanus's The Art of Courtly Love. From there, we learn about comic love and tragic love in the works of Moliere and Racine, the art of seduction in the works of Prevost and Rousseau, the Romantic ideals (and disasters) described by George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, and many others all the way to contemporary times. All of this epitomized by Héloise's assurances to Abelard that "Throughout my life. God knows it, it has been you, rather than God, whom I feared offending, you, rather than Him, I wanted to please." Yalom's amazing scholarship, revealed in her expressive writing, assures us of how important the French idea of love has been to the entire western world. We are still mightily influenced by it.Terence Clarke

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    Amusing read
  

*by C***K on Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2013*

I had a good time reading this overview of French (and to some extent, universal) concepts of love. Yalom's survey of French literature made me want to go out and dive into a stack of the books that she uses as her sources.There are occasional personal references that sometimes jar. And I did laugh a little at Yalom's contention that she was unable to include a certain examples because of "lack of space." What? Was there a paper shortage? Did Amazon limit the number of bits for digital copies?

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    Survey of French lit
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2019*

Great review of French literture

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