Heroins suffer from the absence of the man they love and who, most often, has perfidibly abandoned them. How can they tell him their suffering? By inventing, to answer this question, the kind of love letter, both tragic monologue and lyrical cantate, Ovid explores the vertigo of wounded heroines. The accents of the Letters of Love still resonate in the confessions of Phèdre as in those of the Portuguese nun, or in the desperate songs of opera divas.