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
Eloisa to Abelard
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Eloisa to Abelard is a verse epistle by Alexander Pope that was published in 1717 and based on a well-known medieval story. Itself an imitation of a Latin poetic genre, its immediate fame resulted in
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…the poet John Hughes made using the translation by Bussy Rabutin, brought the myth back into fashion when he published in 1717 the famous tragic poem Eloisa to Abelard, which was intended as a pastiche, but does not relate to the authentic letters. The original text was neglected and only the characters and the plot…
Abelard and his pupil Heloise by Edmund Leighton, 1882
Abelard neglecting his philosophical studies to write to Eloisa, designed by Edward Edwards (London 1777)
Bernard d'Agesci, Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abélard (c.1780)
The Abelard and Heloise monument in Père Lachaise cemetery, a coloured print from 1831