Unpublished until 1922, Love and old age is yet relentlessly lucid-on meditation-hallucinatory pathology of passion, the work of a Chateaubriand has over sixty years: "charming" par excellence, the irresistible writer who collected female conquests and, very young, he puts love in the center of his reflection, both sacred and profane. Defined by Sainte-Beuve as a "delusional confession" and Marc Fumaroli as "an unfinished, unmentionable and destined for destruction masterpiece", this meditation has the rending vehemence of the truth by rejecting the girl offered, old writer reveals about love, nostalgia and memory, much more than they have said about them wordy many writers. Complete this edition an essay in which Marc Fumaroli analyzes Love and old age as a prototype of modern eroticism.