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Available
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Publication
NYRB Classics (2012), Paperback, 280 pages
Description
The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess milie du Ch telet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Ch teau de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised the French aristocracy with their passionate love affair and provoked revolutions both political and scientific with their groundbreaking work in literature, philosophy and physics.Nancy Mitford's account of the love affair of the Enlightenment is, in the author's own words, 'a shriek from beginning to end'.
User reviews
LibraryThing member michaelbartley
I was disappointed in this book. There was a lot about the literaty and noble world of France in the 1740s to 50s but very little about their relationship. almost nothing about their work
LibraryThing member Roarer
I love this book, the story of the relationship between Voltaire and the Marquise du Chatelet, a significant French mathematician
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1957
Physical description
280 p.; 5.04 inches
ISBN
9781590175781