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Le "roman" de Maria Monk
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Le "roman" de Maria Monk
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Maria Monk (1816-1849), born in Dorchester, now part of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, asserted in her purportedly autobiographical 1836 book titled "Awful Disclosures at the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal" that she had been a nun at Montreal's Hotêl Dieu Convent and had been forced by her superior to kill a companion nun who refused to submit to the sexual demands of the priests at the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. She also claimed that children born to the nuns as a result of the liaisons with the priests were immediately baptized and then strangled. Some 300,000 copies of Awful Disclosures were sold before Monk was discredited.
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La revue de l'Université Laval
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Vol. 8
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569-580
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1953-1954
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fr
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Dufebvre, Bernard. “Le ‘roman’ de Maria Monk.” La revue de l’Université Laval Vol. 8 (1954 1953): 569–580.
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