L’apostasie des conventuelles dans la France des XVI^e et XVII^e siècles Scandale éclatant ou libération volontaire ?

The nun left ­convent to marry is a remarkably ­consistent polemical topos among Catholic and Protestant polemical writings. They often discuss ­Luther’s marriage, corrupted ­convents, ­nuns’raptures, abortions and secret infanticides. However, in fact, it remains hard to assess the real impact of Reformation on ­conventual nuns, and it seems that only few of them actually left the cloister.