A new era is born.

In 1669, a Paris bookseller published a dainty volume called Portuguese Letters. It was small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, but its passionate story inspired poets and painters for hundreds of ...

Julie, a young French actress and a fluent Portuguese speaker, is in Lisbon for the first time. She is shooting a film there based on Letters from a Portuguese Nun — a 17th-century epistolary novel, ...