The flip side of love. The history of partings

From medieval tragic impossibility to combine honor and passion to the modern idea of ​​free relations: the book Sabin Melchior-Bonne is devoted to the evolution of ideas about love and parting. The author traces it on the example of the personal stories of famous people: among the heroes of this book - Abular and Eloise, Napoleon and Josephine, Pushkin and Goncharova, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Kallas, Prince Charles and Princess Diana ... their letters and diaries keep certificates of love and treason, Quarrels and disappointments in which the ideals and values ​​of different eras are reflected, and the breakdown itself becomes a point at which duty and feeling, freedom and taboos, intimate and social.
Analyzing these documents, the author demonstrates how from the XII century to the present, ideas about reputation, honor, happiness, self -realization and freedom have changed.
Sabin Melchior -Bonne - historian, specialist in the history of emotions. She worked for college de France, author of the book "History of the Mirror", published in the publishing house "New Literary Review"