Emilie du Chatelet Daring Genius of the Enlightenment

Name: Emilie du Chatelet Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
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Authors: Judith P. Zinsser

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The captivating biography of the French aristocrat who balanced the demands of her society with passionate affairs of the heart and a brilliant life of the mind Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Chtelet (17061749) was more than a great mans mistress. After marrying a marquis at the age of eighteen, she proceeded to fulfill the prescribedand delightfully frivolousrole of a French noblewoman of her time. But she also challenged it, conducting a highly visible affair with a commoner, writing philosophical works, and translating Newtons Principiawhile pregnant by a younger lover. With the sweep of…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.39" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Prologue: 1749



December 1706-June 1735



The Families: Daughter and Wife


Daughter to the Baron de Breteuil


Daughter 10 Gabrielle Anne de Froullay, Baronne de Breteuil


A New Hypothesis


Betrothal and Marriage to the Marquis Du Chatelet-Lomont


Family and Children


Households and Finances


"Les Choses Frivoles"


Victor Esprit



The Republic of Letters: The Prodigy


The Meeting


The Prodigy and the Mathematicians


The Courtship: 1733-34


Voltaire in Danger: April 1734


The Decision: June 1735



July 1735-March 1741



"Mon Academie": Chatelaine of Cirey


The Duties of a Chatelaine


"Paradise on Earth"


"Storms in Paradise"


Collaboration on the Traite de metaphysique


Co-autbor of the Elements de la philosophie de Newton



An Independent Reputation: Geometre and Physicien


Experiments with Fire


Publication in the Republic of Letters


Institutions de Physique


Challenges and Victory



April 1741-September 1749



Philosophe and Courtier: "Uranie" and Breteuil Du Chatelet


Challenges of New Varieties: 1741-42


Recognition as a Philosophe: "Uranie" The Examens de la Bible


A Courtier at Versailles and Fontainebleau


Success for the Family: Breteuil Du Chatelet


Advancing Voltaire's Career and Winning the Prize



The Woman of Passions and the Historians: "La Divine Emilie"


Translating Newton's Principia


Voltaire's Changes of Heart


The Commentaire on Newton's "System of the World"


From Versailles to Sceaux to Luneville


The Grand Passion of a Lifetime


"To Risk All for All"


Death and Memory


Epilogue: 2006


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index