Passionate minds: the great love affair of the Enlightenment, featuring the scientist Emilie Du Châtelet, the poet Voltaire, sword fights, book burnings, assorted kings, seditious verse, and the birth of the modern world
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Publication Date
c2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
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Authors, French
Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749
Mistresses
Mistresses -- France -- Biography
Relations with women
Scientists
Scientists -- France -- Biography
Voltaire
Voltaire, 1694-1778 -- Relations with women
Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749
Mistresses
Mistresses -- France -- Biography
Relations with women
Scientists
Scientists -- France -- Biography
Voltaire
Voltaire, 1694-1778 -- Relations with women
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ISBN
9780307237200
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