[12] The list may be found in Les plus belles pages de Stendhal (Mercure de France, Paris, 1908, pp. 511–14).
[13] On p. [7], below, Stendhal refers to some of the "best" books on Love.
[14] Histoire de la Littérature Française (800-1900), Paris, 1907.
[15] See Translators' note 47, p. [353], below.
[16] See Chap. XLI, p. [159], below.
[17] See Chap. XLI, p. [160], n. 4, below.
[18] "Like the passion of Love that lends Beauties and Graces to the Person it does embrace; and that makes those who are caught with it, with a depraved and corrupt Judgment, consider the thing they love other and more perfect than it is."—Montaigne's Essays, Bk. II, Chapter XVII (Cotton's translation.) This is "crystallisation"—Stendhal could not explain it better.
We cannot here forgo quoting one more passage from Montaigne, which bears distinctly upon other important views of Stendhal. "I say that Males and Females are cast in the same Mould and that, Education and Usage excepted, the Difference is not great.... It is much more easy to accuse one Sex than to excuse the other. 'Tis according to the Proverb—'Ill may Vice correct Sin.'" (Bk. Ill, Chap. V).
[19] "In a literary sense."