How the French invented love

By Marilyn Yalom

Subjects: French National characteristics, Love in literature, Sex in literature, Moral conditions, Love, Social life and customs, Man-woman relationships, History and criticism, French literature, History, Sex customs

Description: Acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom distills the central tenets of the Gallic gospel of love from her reading of the great French literary works, as well as from the people she has known and her own memories of France, examining almost a thousand years of divine culture in search of the intimate moments that reveal how the particularly French concept of l'amour has endured and evolved.