French screen queen Isabelle Huppert's bad habit THE Nun (La Religieuse) was considered too controversial to be published in the lifetime of its author, 18th-century Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot. The story is told as a memoir from the perspective of a young nun, the illegitimate Suzanne, who has been forced into convent life by her mother. At three convents she causes a ruckus by voicing her desire to be released from vows.