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How the French Invented Love: A Book Talk with Marilyn Yalom

Oct.22.2012

Please join us for a book talk with Marilyn Yalom, author of How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance. Hear Yalom discuss her readings of French literary works and the memories of her experiences in France, which she uses in her book to illuminate the central tenets of France's gospel of love.

This event is free and open to all and a small reception and book signing will follow the talk.

Marilyn's Latest Blogs

Oct.25.2012 - 12:34 pm
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...
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Oct.22.2012 - 9:11 am
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...
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Nov.18.2011 - 6:54 pm
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...
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Published Reviews

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Dec.17.2012
Published by Los Angeles Review of Books
DID THE FRENCH INVENT LOVE? Or would it be more true to say that love is endlessly reinvented every moment, in every culture, every epoch? What the French did is what Arabian...