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Name: How the French invented love
Author: Marilyn Yalom

📘 How the French invented love by Marilyn Yalom

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.

First publish date: 2012

Authors: Marilyn Yalom

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