Heloise
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Héloïse, variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.
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Jean-Baptiste Goyet, Héloïse et Abailard, oil on copper, c. 1829
Heloise takes the habit at Argenteuil.
Heloise at the Abbey of the Paraclete by Jean-Baptiste Mallet
Peter Abelard
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Peter Abelard was a French philosopher, logician, theologian, composer, and poet.
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…prelate nullius. She is famous in history and popular culture for her love affair and correspondence with the leading medieval logician and theologian Peter Abelard, who became her colleague, collaborator, and husband. She is known for exerting critical intellectual influence upon his work and posing many challenging…
Depiction by Antoni Oleszczyński, before 1841
Statue of Abelard at Louvre Palace in Paris by Jules Cavelier
Dedicatory panel in the Père Lachaise Cemetery
Peter Abelard and Heloïse in a manuscript of the Roman de la Rose (14th century)