Letters From a Portuguese Nun to an Officer in the French Army

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Leisure which his military avocations permitted, he became enamoured of Marianne, a young Portuguese nun or canoness, in whom he excited a passion still more violent than what he felt himself. He was not however an ...