by Denis Diderot · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070360574
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«La Religieuse» is the novel by Denis Diderot, published by Gallimard in paperback (378 pages, in French).
In eighteenth-century France, Suzanne Simonin is forced by her parents to enter a convent: she is an illegitimate daughter and her mother hopes to atone for a youthful indiscretion. Diderot traces a satire of monastic life; the novel follows Suzanne from one mother superior who takes her in to another who subjects her to humiliations when she decides to break her vows.
Edition in the Folio Classique collection, prepared by Robert Mauzi. The work was originally published in 1796; this Gallimard edition is from 1972.
For readers of French classics and Enlightenment thought, and for those studying the figure of women in the eighteenth century.
Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment.
