How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and RomanceRead about another book on the list.
Marilyn Yalom (Harper Perennial)
Yalom's witty and enchanting tour of French literature—from Abélard and Héloïse in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st—asks how the French manage their romances, marriages, affairs, and obsession with love and sex, and will send readers in search of these classic texts.
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--Marshal Zeringue