La Religieuse

6 albums/37 artworks – 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.To read some background info on this book see Wikipedia. I think this title deserves a spot in the book gallery because the story was illustrated more then once, however when starting my research it turned out that it was a bit more complicated then I had forseen. There has long been an assumption that Jean-François Le Barbier was the first illustrator of La Religieuse, where as…

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