La Diderot, Denis 1713-1784 creator Assézat, Jules 1832-1876 text utu 2009 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La religieuse" by Denis Diderot is a novel completed around 1780 and published posthumously in 1796. Inspired by a real case, it tells the story of Suzanne Simonin, a young woman forced by her parents to take religious vows and confined to a convent against her will. Through three different convents, she endures psychological torment, physical harassment, and unwanted advances while fighting for her freedom. The novel denounces religious institutions that imprison individuals and explores how enforced isolation corrupts human nature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Religieuse_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Religieuse Release date is 2009-05-15 Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) Original publication data not identified France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Nuns -- Fiction Convents -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28827 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28827 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133646.0 28827