Peter Abelard
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Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer and musician.
Page from Apologia contra Bernardum, Abelard's reply to Bernard of Clairvaux
"Abaelardus and Heloïse surprised by Master Fulbert", by Romanticist painter Jean Vignaud (1819)
Abelard, attacked and castrated
Héloïse
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Héloïse, variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.
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