Notes sur l'Amour

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Notes sur l'Amour

by Claude Anet

FR·~4 hours·13 chapters

Chapters

13 total
1

NOTES SUR L’AMOUR

0:31
2

PRÉFACE

12:54
3

I DE L’AMOUR - LA PEUR DE L’AMOUR

23:11
4

II NATURE ET SOCIÉTÉ

14:04
5

III LES HOMMES

41:40
6

IV QUELQUES CONSEILS SUR LE CHOIX D’UNE MAÎTRESSE

30:37
7

V LES FEMMES

1:03:54
8

VI DE LA BEAUTÉ

17:26
9

VII DE LA JALOUSIE

21:27
10

VIII LES RUPTURES

14:26

Description

An intimate series of fragments, this work gathers a writer’s wandering thoughts on love, assembled over many years of chance encounters and fleeting moments. The author refuses grand definitions, instead offering brief, sometimes contradictory observations that capture love’s restless, ever‑shifting nature. By sidestepping formal essays, the notes move fluidly, echoing the lived experience of desire, loss, and the relentless force that pushes life forward.

The prose is quietly philosophical, hinting at the idea that love may be as natural and inexorable as gravity, yet it remains stubbornly elusive to any systematic description. Readers are invited to sift through the snapshots—personal, candid, and occasionally skeptical—and find their own resonance amid the contradictions. Though concise, the collection hints at a broader conversation about truth, perception, and the ways we try to name what ultimately defies capture.

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Language

fr

Duration

~4 hours (270K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

France: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1908.

Credits

Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))

Release date

2022-08-23

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

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About the author

Claude Anet

Claude Anet

1868–1931

A French novelist, journalist, and champion tennis player, he brought unusual firsthand experience to his fiction and reporting. He is especially remembered for novels such as Ariane, jeune fille russe and Mayerling, both of which later reached the screen.

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