As always, your work is impeccable and delightful, @josemalavem.
You know, from all of this what accompanies me always is the notion of courtly love inherited from medieval times. I think it permeates all the romantic aesthetics: concealing the brute, the basic instincts, the gore, the scatological; taking all that is unfortunately human and transforming it into passion, temperance, heartbeat, and sweat & tears. A French romantic has a tumultuous mind (and probably a tumultuous life), believes in utopian affairs, and is paradoxically willing to give up his life while scrutinizing his every emotion and its repercussions on his nerves. I guess this last remark is always au fait, for even today romantics have one foot on a cloud.
Delightful read! Thanks ♥☻