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Emilie Du Chatelet |
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| Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 384 pages | ISBN 9780143112686 | 27 Nov 2007 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP |
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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 Châtelet (1706–1749) was more than a great man’s mistress. After marrying a marquis at the age of eighteen, she proceeded to fulfill the prescribed—and delightfully frivolous—role 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 Newton’s Principia while pregnant by a younger lover. With the sweep of Galileo’s Daughter, Emilie Du Châtelet captures the charm, glamour, and brilliance of this magnetic woman.
Read Judith Zinsser's posts on the Penguin Blog.
“Today’s women will find much that is familiar in Du Châtelet’s multitasking lifestyle, which Zinsser . . . describes with understandable and infectious appreciation.”
—The New York Times Book Review
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