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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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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