On Love (Stendhal)
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De l’Amour is a treatise by French author Stendhal published in 1822 in which he defines a theory of love and particularly his famous theory on crystallization.
In this book, Stendhal distinguishes four kinds of love, l'amour physique, l'amour de vanité, l'amour goût, and l'amour passion.
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