- SENANCOUR (Etienne-Jean-Baptiste Pivert de). Of Love, considered in the real laws, and in the social forms of the union of the sexes. Paris, Cérioux, Arthus Bertrand ; de l'Imprimerie de Béraud, février 1806, in 8°, blond basane, spine with nerves partitioned and decorated with flowers, double gilt fillet on the boards, single gilt fillet on the edges, tr. jaspées (posterior binding). hinges split, spine very rubbed.) Uncommon first edition of this essay in the form of a meditation, one of the most original by Senancour (1770-1846), otherwise a typical author of early French Romanticism. It is usually remembered only for its defense of divorce, whereas it contains a true "physiology" of the feeling of love. Absent from Vicaire. Escoffier, 163.