ABSTRACT
Antoine de Courtin was a French diplomat who served the French Crown in Sweden and England. Although he is best known for his Nouveau traite de la civilite , a manual of politeness, he also wrote a treatise on jealousy and how to preserve the peace between husbands and wives in 1682. As the title suggests, the main focus of this work is on the impact of jealousy on marital relations and how to prevent that emotion from wrecking otherwise happy marriages. Jealous Persons may be divided into two Classes, the first is of these whose Jealousie is rather a weakness of the Mind than an inward resentment of the Passion; the other is of those whose Jealousie is a formal Blindness that quite overthrows Reason. A Husband that is Jealous and in the first Rank ought always to regard two things in the Jealousie he has of his Wife.
