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La Religieuse (novel)
Novel by Denis Diderot / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
La Religieuse (also called The Nun or Memoirs of a Nun) is an 18th-century French novel by Denis Diderot. Completed in about 1780, it was first published by Friedrich Melchior Grimm in 1792 (eight years after Diderot's death) in his Correspondance littéraire in Saxony, and subsequently in 1796 in France.
For other uses, see La Religieuse (disambiguation).
"The Nun (novel)" redirects here. For other novels, see The Nun (disambiguation).
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