The life story of Heloise and Abelard is a story of sublime love that survived the era of Tristan and Isolde. It has been retold so many times, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, that in some ways it has even lost its truth. And for the first time in many years, the famous French researcher of the Middle Ages, Régine Pernu, retold it, based on the authentic correspondence of the heroes who came from an all-conquering passion to true holiness.

This extraordinary story happened during the period when a school building appeared on the hill of Saint Genevieve an institution that became the prototype of the famous Sorbonne, when the Romanesque style reached its peak in architecture and Gothic art began to emerge, when the development of logic contributed to the emergence of great medieval theological treatises that had an indelible influence on the worldview of contemporaries.