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LETTERS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN by CYR, MYRIAM (Hardcover - 2006) ISBN: 9780786869114 Subject: HISTORY (NON-ASIAN) Publisher: HYPERRION US In 1669, a Parisian bookseller published a slim volume called ˇ§Portuguese Lettersˇ¨, which took Paris by storm. The letters spoke of love in a manner direct and unapologetic, unequivocally sensual and sexual, sending shivers through the sophisticated stratums of polite society. When they were made public in the salons of Paris, people assumed they were the fictional creation of a French aristocrat. The consensus was that no woman could write words of such stunning truth and beauty. The volume became a best seller while the officer maintained a chivalrous silence until his death. Now, through meticulous research, Myriam Cyr persuasively makes the case that the nun did indeed write the letters, and her story is one of the most moving in the history of forbidden love. |
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LETTERS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN: UNCOVERING THE MYSTERY BEHIND A 17TH CENTURY FORBIDDEN LOVE by CYR, MYRIAM (Paperback - 2006) ISBN: 9781401360160 Subject: FICTION Publisher: MIRAMAX BOOKS USA |
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