How the French Invented Love (45 page)

1.
Simone de Beauvoir,
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
, trans. James Kirkup (New York: Harper & Row, 1959), p. 339.

2.
Ibid., p. 345.

3.
Simone de Beauvoir,
The Prime of Life
, trans. Peter Green (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), p. 24.

4.
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Lettres au Castor et à quelques autres
, vols. 1–2 (Paris: Gallimard, 1983); Simone de Beauvoir,
Lettres à Sartre
, ed. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (Paris: Gallimard, 1990).

5.
Hazel Rowley,
Tête-à-Tête. The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
(New York: HarperCollins, 2005).

6.
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir 1940–1963
(New York: Scribner’s, 1993), pp. 273–274.

7.
Beauvoir,
The Prime of Life
, p. 55.

8.
Deirdre Bair,
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
(New York: Simon and Shuster, 1990), p. 333.

9.
Simone de Beauvoir,
A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
(New York: New Press, 1998).

10.
Bianca Lamblin,
A Disgraceful Affair
, trans. Julie Plovnick (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996).

11.
Cited by Rowley,
Tête-à-Tête
, p. 335.

12.
Simone de Beauvoir,
The Second Sex
, trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (New York: Knopf, 2010).

13.
Simone de Beauvoir,
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre
, trans. Patrick O’Brian (London: André Deutsch/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984), preface.

14.
Bair,
Simone de Beauvoir
, p. 183.

Chapter Fifteen: The Dominion of Desire

1.
Marguerite Duras,
10:30 on a Summer Night
, trans. Anne Borchardt, in
Four Novels by Marguerite Duras
(New York: Grove Press, 1978), p. 165. Subsequent translations of this novella are from this edition.

2.
Marguerite Duras,
Moderato Cantabile
, trans. Richard Seaver, in ibid., p. 81. Subsequent translations from this novella are from this edition.

3.
Marguerite Duras,
The Lover
, trans. Barbara Bray (New York: Pantheon Books, 1997), p. 32. Subsequent translations from this novel are from this edition.

4.
Laure Adler,
Marguerite Duras: A Life
, trans. Anne-Marie Glasheen (London: Victor Gollancz, 1998), pp. 53–67.

Chapter Sixteen: Love in the Twenty-first Century

1.
Paul Claudel,
Partage de midi
(Paris: Gallimard, 1949), p. 7.

2.
Philippe Sollers,
Trésor d’amour
(Paris: Gallimard, 2011).

3.
René Girard,
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
, trans. Yvonne Freccero (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965).

4.
Michel Houellebecq,
The Elementary Particles
, trans. Frank Wynne (New York: Vintage, 2000), prologue.

5.
Virginie Despentes,
King Kong Théorie
(Paris: Grasset, 2006), p. 9. My translation.

6.
Citations from publicity distributed by
Nord/Ouest Documentaires
.

Epilogue

1.
Words attributed to Jean-François Kahn,
Le Point
, May 26, 2011.

2.
The Key to Love
, in
The Comedy of Eros: Medieval French Guides to the Art of Love
, trans. Norman R. Shapiro (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997), p. 37.

3.
Sue Carrell, ed.,
La Comtesse de Sabran et le Chevalier de Boufflers: Correspondance
. Vol. 1,
1777–1785
; Vol. 2,
1786–1787
(Paris: Tallandier, 2009, 2010).

4.
“Je t’aime: enquête sur une déclaration universelle,”
Philosophie
, April 2011.

5.
Elaine Sciolino,
La Seduction
, pp. 54–57.

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