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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100670038008

ISBN-139780670038008

eBay Product ID (ePID)57199068

Product Key Features

Book TitleDame D'esprit : a Biography of Marquise Du Chatelet

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Literary, Historical, Science & Technology

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJudith Zinsser

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight21.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-046125

TitleLeadingLa

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal848.509

SynopsisThe scintillating life of the most brilliant woman of the French Enlightenment, the lover of Voltaire and translator of Newton Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born to the highest circles of the French aristocracy, married a marquis at the age of eighteen, and indulged in all the pleasures of her class. Then at twenty-seven, defying convention, she became the mistress of poet and playwright Voltaire, embarking on an extraordinary and transformative intellectual journey as his patroness, his lover, and his companion. In this sparkling life, Judith P. Zinsser vividly explores how the Marquise Du Ch'telet transformed herself from courtier, wife, and mother into one of the leading intellects of the French Enlightenment.Freed by her wealth and status to pursue a life of the mind, Du Ch'telet developed swiftly into an accomplished mathematician, physicist, translator, and author of original works of philosophy and science. At the end of her life, pregnant by a young new lover, she raced to complete her translation and commentary on Newton’s Principia. The only woman of the Enlightenment to be recognized for her genius, Du Ch'telet was centuries ahead of her time. By bringing this singular woman to life with style and wit, Zinsser at last gives this revolutionary her due., The scintillating life of the most brilliant woman of the French Enlightenment, the lover of Voltaire and translator of Newton Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born to the highest circles of the French aristocracy, married a marquis at the age of eighteen, and indulged in all the pleasures of her class. Then at twenty-seven, defying convention, she became the mistress of poet and playwright Voltaire, embarking on an extraordinary and transformative intellectual journey as his patroness, his lover, and his companion. In this sparkling life, Judith P. Zinsser vividly explores how the Marquise Du Chtelet transformed herself from courtier, wife, and mother into one of the leading intellects of the French Enlightenment. Freed by her wealth and status to pursue a life of the mind, Du Chtelet developed swiftly into an accomplished mathematician, physicist, translator, and author of original works of philosophy and science. At the end of her life, pregnant by a young new lover, she raced to complete her translation and commentary on Newtons "Principia," The only woman of the Enlightenment to be recognized for her genius, Du Chtelet was centuries ahead of her time. By bringing this singular woman to life with style and wit, Zinsser at last gives this revolutionary her due.

LC Classification NumberPQ1981.D55Z98 2006