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Your review of Nina Epton's Love and the French [Feb. 22] mentions ladies of that nation in the 14th and 15th centuries who were able to stand candlesticks on their high-Laced bosoms...
Love and the French, by Nina Epton. A keyhole view of the subject from the hard-jousting Middle Ages to the seemingly weary 20th century...
Love and the French, by Nina Epton. A keyhole view of the subject, from the hard-jousting Middle Ages to the flaccid 20th-century...
Came the Revolution. George Sand's grandmother once told her that "the Revolution brought old age into the world." Certainly, the tumbrils seemed to cart off some of the zest of Author Epton's chronicle. Napoleon, the self-made emperor, bolted his love affairs the way he bolted his meals. Lovers, who had been pretty vigorous since the Renaissance, again began to talk about dying. A book on How to Succeed in Love, published in 1830, suggested fainting fits, attacks of hysteria, and suicide threats. Morbid romanticism subsequently gave way to liaisons based on credit ratings. Toward...
...judge by the meager 30 pages she devotes to it, Historian Epton seems to feel that the 20th century is one of love's bear markets. Who killed Eros? Women did, by "becoming too much like men. Their curiosity value has declined." In compiling her Erostatistics, the author has done a lot to boost that curiosity value...