Voltaire in Love
by:
Nancy Mitford (author)
Paperback. Pub Date: October 2011 Pages: 256 Publisher: Vintage Classics The meeting of Voltaire. Successful financier. Famous poet and troublemaker. And the enchanting amateur physicist and countess milie du Chatelet. Was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Chateau de Cirey. the two...
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Paperback. Pub Date: October 2011 Pages: 256 Publisher: Vintage Classics The meeting of Voltaire. Successful financier. Famous poet and troublemaker. And the enchanting amateur physicist and countess milie du Chatelet. Was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Chateau de Cirey. the two illiant intellects scandalised the French aristocracy with their passionate love affair and provoked revolutions both political and scientific with their groundeaking work in literature. philosophy and physics. Nancy Mitford's account of the love affair of the Enlightenment is. in the author's own words. 'a shriek from beginning to end'.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099528890 (0099528894)
Publish date: October 6th 2011
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford recounts the relationship between Voltaire and Madame du Chatelet. Voltaire and Madame du Chatelet both are brilliant and confrontational, and their clashing personalities creates a whole lot of relationship drama (between them as well as their peers) while Madame ...
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