The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Émilie du Châtelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Château de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised the French aristocracy with their passionate love affair and provoked revolutions both political and scientific with their groundbreaking 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'.
| ISBN: | 9780099528890 |
| Publication date: | 6th October 2011 |
| Author: | Nancy Mitford |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 244 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
| Genres: |
Biography: writers Biography: philosophy and social sciences Biography: historical, political and military |