HAMILTON, ANTONY
Memoirs of the Count De Grammont

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
Our Old Home

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ABÉLARD AND HÉLOÏSE


Love-Letters


In the Paris cemetery of Père-Lachaise, on summer Sundays,
flowers and wreaths are still laid on the tomb of a woman who
died nearly 750 years ago. It is the grave of Heloise and of
her lover Abelard, the hero and heroine of one of the world's
greatest love stories. Born in 1079, Abelard, after a
scholastic activity of twenty-five years, reached the highest
academic dignity in Christendom--the Chair of the Episcopal
School in Paris. When he was 38 he first saw Heloise, then a
beautiful girl of 17, living with her uncle, Canon Fulbert.