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Noun: Héloïse
  1. French nun and scholar, known for her love affair and later marriage to Peter Abelard (circa 1098-1164)
    "The letters between Héloïse and Abelard are considered classics of medieval literature"

Type of: abbess, mother superior, prioress

Encyclopedia: Héloïse