La Religieuse
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La Religieuse is an 18th-century French novel by Denis Diderot that critiques religious institutions through the story of a young woman forced into convent life.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Religieuse canonical | 4 |
| La Religieuse (1966 film) | 1 |
| La Religieuse (2013 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: La Religieuse Context triple: [Denis Diderot, notableWork, La Religieuse]
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La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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La Peau de chagrin
La Peau de chagrin is a philosophical novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of desire, power, and mortality through a magical talisman that grants wishes while shrinking with each use.
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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes is a major novel in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that explores the intertwined worlds of Parisian high society, crime, and prostitution in the early 19th century.
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Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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E.
Jacques le fataliste et son maître
Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: La Religieuse Target entity description: La Religieuse is an 18th-century French novel by Denis Diderot that critiques religious institutions through the story of a young woman forced into convent life.
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A.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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B.
La Peau de chagrin
La Peau de chagrin is a philosophical novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of desire, power, and mortality through a magical talisman that grants wishes while shrinking with each use.
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C.
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes is a major novel in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that explores the intertwined worlds of Parisian high society, crime, and prostitution in the early 19th century.
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D.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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E.
Jacques le fataliste et son maître
Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French novel
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epistolary novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French Enlightenment philosophy
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anticlericalism in France ⓘ |
| author | Denis Diderot ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
monastic life ⓘ religious vows taken under coercion ⓘ |
| form | prose fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
anticlerical literature
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philosophical fiction ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
La Religieuse
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
La Religieuse (1966 film)
La Religieuse self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
La Religieuse (2013 film)
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| hasCharacterRole |
confessor
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mother superior ⓘ nuns ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 18th-century French literature ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
psychological analysis of the heroine
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realist description of convent life ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Suzanne Simonin ⓘ |
| movement | Enlightenment ⓘ |
| narrativeForm |
epistolary form
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first-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La Religieuse self-link ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcern |
autonomy of the individual
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critique of religious authority ⓘ freedom of conscience ⓘ |
| protagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| protagonistStatus | forced nun ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| setting | French convents ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | life of a young woman forced into a convent ⓘ |
| theme |
abuse of power in convents
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critique of religious institutions ⓘ female oppression ⓘ forced vocation ⓘ individual freedom versus institutional authority ⓘ religious hypocrisy ⓘ |
| titleInEnglish | The Nun ⓘ |
| workOf | Denis Diderot ⓘ |
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Referenced by (6)
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