Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun Author:Gabriel De Lavergne, Vicomte de Guilleragues, Guido Waldman (Translator) The "Portuguese Letters" were published anonymously in 1669, alleged translations into French of letters written by a Portuguese nun to a French officer who had loved and left her. Recent scholarship suggests Guilleragues was their author. Reminiscent of the exchanges between Heloise and Abelard of an earlier time, the letters display ... more »a remarkable acuity of psychological insight into the mind of a woman in love and on the edge of hysteria.« less