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How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance | Marilyn Yalom
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Absolutely marvelous lively and learned .Marilyn Yalom s book is a distinguished contribution to our experience of a great literature, as well as an endearing memoir. Diane Johnson, author of Lulu in Marrakech and Le Divorce [An] enchanting tour of French literature from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st. Publishers Weekly (starred review)How the French Invented Love is an entertaining and masterful history of love a la francaise by acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom. Spanning the Middle Ages to the present, Yalom explores a love-obsessed culture through its great works of literature from Moliere s comic love to the tragic love of Racine, from the existential love of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to the romanticism of George Sand and Alfred de Musset. A thoroughly engaging homage to French culture and literature interlaced with the author s delicious personal anecdotes, How the French Invented Love is ideal for fans of Alain de Botton, Adam Gopnik, and Simon Schama."
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ValerieAndBooks
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Book haul from Dollar Tree (it was nearby an errand I had to run!). The tagged book and the To the Letter has lots of literary references. Middle book has a Man Booker prize finalist sticker on it.

Please let me not have to go anywhere for the next couple years so I can catch up on my TBR and avoid adding more to it 😅😂!!

LeahBergen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y
ValerieAndBooks @LeahBergen I think one or both of these will be good reading if I need short breaks in between C&P chapters 😊 6y
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Librarybelle
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Went to the #dollartree I visited a couple weeks ago, and different books were there! Walked away with these beauties! #bookhaul

@Puredragonstar I found a copy of Alias Hook there! It was stuck in the far back of the shelving, so I‘m glad I could find a copy for you. Send me your mailing address, and I‘ll send it out to you by the end of next week. My email address is my Litsy handle at gmail.com. So happy I found one!

Another store tomorrow!

ReadingVampire Omg! 😱😱😱🎉🍾🎊 Thank you so much!!!! I‘ll send my addy right away! Your book haul looks great too! The dollar stores are so surprising! 🤩😍🤯 6y
Librarybelle @Puredragonstar You are so welcome! With my post office‘s limited hours, Friday is probably the earliest I can send it out. But, it‘ll be on the way soon! 6y
kyraleseberg Nice Dollar Tree haul! I picked up Alias Hook this week, too! 6y
Librarybelle Awesome, @kyraleseberg ! Thanks! 6y
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youneverarrived
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💋 interesting book about the French and love from the twelfth century to the present. #emojinov

Sydsavvy I forgot I read this! It really was interesting. 7y
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pinkBBwhiskey
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My inner Francophile is so pleased with this one.

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A fascinating read that is part literary criticism, part anthropological study. Of course the focus on the "invention" of romantic concepts is largely confined to the beginning of the book; subsequent chapters deal with how later authors and generations build on or challenge early French ideas of romance. If you're interested in French lit (like me), prepare for your TBR to get longer!

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