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Emilie du Châtelet was a fencer, gambler, brilliant mathematician and passionate lover. A true character out of Liaisons Dangereuses, she - and her close friend Voltaire - helped create the French Enlightenment...and the modern world
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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An interesting, although uncompelling, recital of the events surrounding the lives of Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet. Not an engaging tale, but, certainly detailing the almost comic and flamboyant lives of these two free thinking individuals. It was most curious to discover that there were actuall ... (continue)
Kerry Jacobson said on Apr 21, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 336 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0349119074
- ISBN-13: 9780349119076
- Publisher: Abacus
- Pub date: Nov 01, 2007
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Kerry Jacobson 
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Passionate Minds: The Great Enlightenment Love Affair by David Bodanis 312pp, Little, Brown, £17.99 Émilie du Châtelet, wrote Voltaire, "was a great man whose only fault was being a woman". Du Châtelet has paid the penalty for being a woman twice ove ... (read full critics)