Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love
By Miriam Cyr
(Miramax, Hardcover, 9780786869114, 256pp.)
Publication Date: February 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Historical - General, Women, Religious
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Description
Through meticulous research, the author makes the case that a Portuguese nun named Mariana Alcoforado did indeed write the passionate love letters to a French officer which took Paris by storm in 1669, after the letters were published by a bookseller as an anonymous work.
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