Does love exist without passion? Is there such a thing as platonic love? Are there different kinds of love? What does it mean to enter an union “until death does us part”? This course focuses on those themes in French literature across the centuries and across the genres. It will provide insights on love and passion from some of the greatest French poets and novelists, among them Ronsard, Corneille, Hugo, Baudelaire, as well as Chateaubriand and Flaubert. Taught in French.