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Oct.25.2012
Love occupies a privileged place in the French national identity, on a par with fashion, food, and human rights. For hundreds of years, the French have championed themselves as guides to the art of love through their literature, paintings, songs, and cinema.
What we now call romantic love can be...
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Oct.22.2012
With pub date for How the French Invented Love: 900 Years of Passion and Romance scheduled for Oct. 23, and three Bay area readings coming up, (Oct. 24, 7 pm at Books Inc, Palo Alto; Oct. 28, 4pm at Book Passage in Corte Madera; and November 8, 7:30 pm at Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley), I'm as...
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Nov.18.2011
The following will appear in my forthcoming book HOW THE FRENCH INVENTED LOVE (HarperCollins, 2012). It is based on the last scene of "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand.
As Cyrano is dying from a head wound inflicted by one of his enemies, he credits Roxane for his unique love experience...
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About Marilyn
Marilyn Yalom is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women’s Memory, A History of the Breast, A History of the Wife, Birth of the Chess Queen, and The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History through...
Causes Marilyn Yalom Supports
Planned Parenthood, Glide Foundation The Global Fund for Women, Amnesty International, Friends Outside