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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 / David Bodanis.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection PQ2103.D7 B63 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodanis, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voltaire, 1694-1778--Relations with women.
- Voltaire.
- Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
- Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil.
- Authors, French--18th century--Biography.
- Authors, French.
- Scientists--France--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Mistresses--France--Biography.
- Mistresses.
- Physical Description:
- 373 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-354) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0307237206
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