Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love
By Myriam Cyr
(Miramax Books, Paperback, 9781401360160, 236pp.)
Publication Date: February 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: Letters, Historical - General, 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.











