Affaire de coeur
a love affair.
historical examples
i don’t think, in the first case, that this was an affaire de coeur, as the frenchmen say.
the drone rutherford mayne
noun (pl) affaires de coeur (afɛr də kœr)
an affair of the heart; love affair
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