Héloïse d'Argenteuil
French scholar and religious figure Héloise secretly married Peter Abelard and later served as abbess of a convent that he founded; after their deaths, people discovered their letters, noted for their eloquence and emotional intensity.
born in perhaps 1098
The French logician and philosopher eventually then prevailed upon this lady of great learning, mistress, and later wife to wear a habit of a postulant. She rose to prioress eventually of the Paraclete.
“Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.”
Héloïse d'Argenteuil
“If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.”
Héloïse d'Argenteuil