by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet · P U F · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782130818502
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«Les revers de l'amour. Une histoire de la rupture» is Sabine Melchior-Bonnet's historical essay, published by PUF in paperback, in French.
An essay on the history of romantic break-up, a subject historians had ignored. It analyses what gives rise to love and to unlove, and how religion, morality and the law condition abandonment, from the married woman's duty of obedience to today's freedom to separate, with famous cases: Heloise and Abelard or Onassis and Callas.
Published in 2019 in PUF's Hors collection series, with the complete text in French.
It will appeal to those who enjoy cultural history and the history of romantic feeling, as well as portraits of famous couples and their break-ups.
