La religieuse by Denis Diderot
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"La religieuse" by Denis Diderot is a novel completed around 1780 and published posthumously in 1796. Inspired by a real case, it tells the story of Suzanne Simonin, a young woman forced by her parents to take religious vows and confined to a convent against her will. Through three different convents, she endures psychological torment, physical harassment, and unwanted advances while fighting for her freedom. The novel denounces religious institutions that imprison
individuals and explores how enforced isolation corrupts human nature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Assézat, Jules, 1832-1876 |
| Title | La religieuse |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Religieuse_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Religieuse |
| Credits |
Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Subject | Nuns -- Fiction |
| Subject | Convents -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 28827 |
| Release Date | May 15, 2009 |
| Last Update | Jan 5, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 586 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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