Love Alone

Laurence Plazenet

Mlle d’Albrecht was fifteen; just then, her childhood was leaving her. Monsieur de Ramon became her teacher, and mentor, and lover. She still knew little about the real world and the sensual world, he already knew many countries, shores and women. He once told her that any discussion between a man and a woman is just a performance, a dance for the sake of taking over the body. In that dance she learned the incomprehensible value of matter from which another was created. This whole sensual and intellectual novel is a dance of living souls in living bodies to the music of love and passion, in the rhythms of doubt and certainty, flexibility and stubbornness, openness and isolation. And all this took place in France, in the eighteenth century roughly. So this novel is also an opportunity to spy: what were being in love and talking about love then and there.