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The text explains why the work was difficult for a broad audience, describes Stendhal’s ideal of “passion-love” and “love à l’italienne” as a life shared by free individuals, and frames his position as a champion of women’s rights. It also evaluates Stendhal’s style, linking his blunt simplicity to the Code Civil and contrasting it with other writers.","[https://TheVirtualLibrary.org](https://TheVirtualLibrary.org)  \nOn Love  \nStendhal  \nTranslated by Philip Sidney Woolf and Cecil N. Sidney Woolf Bretano’s, New York, 1915  \nINTRODUCTORY PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATION  \nStendhal’s three prefaces to this work on Love are not an encouraging opening. Their main theme is the utter incomprehensibility of the book to all but a very select few—“a hundred readers only”: they are rather warnings than introductions. Certainly, the early life of Stendhal’s De l’Amour justifies this somewhat distant attitude towards the public. The first and second editions were phenomenal failures—not even a hundred readers were forthcoming. But Stendhal, writing in the early part of the nineteenth century, himself prophesied that the twentieth would find his ideas at least more comprehensible. The ideas of genius in one age are the normal spiritual food for superior intellect in the next. Stendhal is still something of a mystery to the general public; but the ideas, which he agitated, are at present regarded as some of the most important subjects for immediate enquiry by many of the keenest and most practical minds of Europe.  \nA glance at the headings of the chapters gives an idea of the breadth of Stendhal’s treatment of love. He touches on every side of the social relationship between man and woman; and while considering the disposition of individual nations towards love, gives usa brilliant, if one-sided, general criticism of these nations, conscious throughout of the intimate connexion in any given age between its conceptions of love and the status of woman.  \nStendhal’s ideal of love has various names: it is generally “passion-love,” but more particularly “love à l’italienne.”[1] The thing in itself is always the same—it is the love of a man and a woman, not as husband and wife, not as mistress and lover, but as two human beings, who find the highest possible pleasure, not in passing so many hours of the day or night together, but in living one life. Still more, it is the attachment of two free fellowcreatures—not of master and slave.  \nStendhal was born in 1783—eight years before Olympe de Gouges, the French Mary Wollstonecraft, published her Déclaration des Droits des Femmes. That is to say, by the time Stendhal had reached mental maturity, Europe had for some time been acquainted with the cry for Women’s Rights, and heard the earliest statement of the demands, which have broadened out into what our age glibly calls the “Woman Question.” How, may we ask, does Stendhal’s standpoint correspond with his chronological position between the French Revolution and the “Votes for Women” campaign of the present day?  \nStendhal is emphatically a champion of Women’s Rights. It is true that the freedom, which Stendhal demands, is designed for other ends than are associated to-day with women’s claims. Perhaps Stendhal, were he alive now, would cry out against what he would call a distortion of the movement he championed. Men, and still more women, must be free, Stendhal holds, in order to love; his chapters in this book on the education of women are all an earnest and brilliant plea to prove that an educated woman is not necessarily apedant; that she is, on the contrary, far more lovable than the uneducated woman, whom our grandfathers brought up on the piano, needlework and the Catechism; in fine, that intellectual sympathy is the true basis of happiness in the relations of the two sexes. Modern exponents of Women’s Rights will say that this is true, but only half the truth. It would be more correct to say that Stendhal saw the whole truth, but forbore to follow it  \nout to its logical conclusion with the blind intransigeance of the modern propagandist. Be that as it may, Stendhal certainly deserves more acknowledgment, as one of the pioneers in the movement, than he generally receives from its present-day supporters.  \nStendhal was continually lamenting his want of ability to write. 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