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The Passionate Heart (French: Léon Morin prêtre) is a 1952 novel by Béatrix Beck which won the Prix Goncourt. It was published in the UK as The Priest (1953) and in the US as The Passionate Heart (1953).A movie version was made in 1961 called Léon Morin Priest (French: Léon Morin prêtre) directed and scripted by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva. Belmondo was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor.