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Mariana Alcoforado

1640 - 1723

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Sóror Mariana Alcoforado (Santa Maria da Feira, Beja, 22 April 1640 – Beja, 28 July 1723) was a Portuguese nun living in the convent of the Poor Clares (Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Convent of Our Lady of the Conception) in Beja, Portugal. Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun (comprising five letters). Her purported love affair with the French officer Noël Bouton, Marquis de Chamilly and later Marshal of France, has made Beja famous in literary circles, mainly in Portugal and France. Some literary scholars consider the letters a fictional work and ascribe their authorship to Gabriel-Joseph de Lavergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1684), although a real nun named Mariana Alcoforado indeed existed. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mariana Alcoforado is the 2,615th most popular writer (down from 2,600th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Portugal (down from 215th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Portuguese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mariana Alcoforado ranks 2,615 out of 7,302. Before her are Polemon I of Pontus, Giulio Angioni, Michael Grant, Thomas Percy, Rosario Castellanos, and Friedrich Spee. After her are George Adamski, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Georges Ohnet, Dezső Kosztolányi, Guillaume Tirel, and Alphonse Matejka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Mariana Alcoforado ranks 16. Before her are Antoine Coysevox, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Yohannes I, Philippe de La Hire, Abraham Mignon, and Jacques Ozanam. After her are Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Willem de Vlamingh, Georg Mohr, Gerard de Lairesse, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, and Claude Fleury. Among people deceased in 1723, Mariana Alcoforado ranks 14. Before her are Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Zanabazar, Guillaume Dubois, Antonio Maria Valsalva, and Praskovia Saltykova. After her are Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, Johann Christian Günther, Claude Fleury, and Jan Santini Aichel.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Mariana Alcoforado ranks 221 out of 633. Before her are Camilo Castelo Branco (1825), José Policarpo (1936), Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887), Theresa of Portugal, Countess of Flanders (1157), Mísia (1955), and Manuel Clemente (1948). After her are Pauleta (1973), Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza (1806), Maria Teresa Horta (1937), Alexandrina of Balazar (1904), Francisco Serrão (1500), and Carlos do Carmo (1939).

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Among WRITERS In Portugal

Among writers born in Portugal, Mariana Alcoforado ranks 15. Before her are João de Barros (1496), Almeida Garrett (1799), Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491), Tomé Pires (1468), António Vieira (1608), and Camilo Castelo Branco (1825). After her are Maria Teresa Horta (1937), Alexandre Herculano (1810), Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919), Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890), António Ferreira (1528), and Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança (1907).

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