Memoirs of a Nun
Diderot, Denis / Furbank, P. N. / Birrell, Francis![Memoirs of a Nun](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/933/9335859/CHSBZCOP039335859.jpg)
Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history. Diderot's story of a novice held in a convent against her will and forced to undergo curious spiritual and sexual trials displays all the brilliance, icy wit, and worldliness of the Enlightenment at its best.