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The lotharios, Don Juans and coureurs de femmes I have come across in my life have invariably confirmed the wise observation of François Mauriac in his novel of literary jealousy, Ce qui était perdu: ‘The more women a man has known, the more rudimentary an idea he constructs for himself of women in general.’ The dictum, soon to be a century old, has lost little of its truth.