# Ourika

Author: Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 1777-1828

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49315

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ourika+Duras&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A few months had elapsed since I quitted Montpellier to follow my profession as physician in Paris, when I was sent for one morning to attend a sick Nun at a convent in the Faubourg St. Jacques. Napoleon had a short time since permitted several of these convents to be re-established: the one I was going to belonged to the order of the Ursuline Sisters, and was opened for the education of young females. Part of the edifice had been destroyed during the Revolution. The cloister was laid bare on one side by the demolition of an antique chapel, of which but a few arches remained. One of the nuns led me through this cloister. As we traversed it I perceived that the broad flat stones that paved...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ourika-49315/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ourika-49315/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ourika-49315/chapters/3/index.md)