
NOTES SUR L’AMOUR
PRÉFACE
I DE L’AMOUR - LA PEUR DE L’AMOUR
II NATURE ET SOCIÉTÉ
III LES HOMMES
IV QUELQUES CONSEILS SUR LE CHOIX D’UNE MAÎTRESSE
V LES FEMMES
VI DE LA BEAUTÉ
VII DE LA JALOUSIE
VIII LES RUPTURES
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.
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.

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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