You then knocked down the whole card castle by reminding (you were really informing) me that the whole of the evidence for the story of the lovers was
in this First Letter, as indeed the whole compass of your own marvellous romance is contained in the period before Heloise went to Paraclete, that is a year at least before even the First Letter purports to have been written.
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter
