Emilie du Châtelet

Standard Name: Châtelet, Emilie du

Used Form: Emilie du Chatelet

Connections

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Friends, Associates	Françoise de Graffigny	She became acquainted with most of the intellectual and cultural leaders of French society. She visited Voltaire and Emilie du Châtelet at Cirey in 1738-9. These two, as well as other Enlightenment figures such as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Nancy Mitford	Her book covers the years 1733-1749, that is, the period of Voltaire 's involvement with Emilie du Châtelet , up to the latter's death following childbirth. It uses then-unpublished letters. It has been variously assessed...

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By 26 March 1741

Emilie du Chatelet composed, within a month, a refutation to sexist attack by Jean-Baptiste Dortous de Mairin , Secretary of the Académie Française , on her Treatise on the Nature of Fire.

Zinsser, Judith P. “Emilie du Châtelet: genius, gender, and intellectual authority”. Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, edited by Hilda L. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 168-90.

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Bodanis, David. “The scientist whom history forgot”. Guardian Weekly, 4–10 Aug. 2006, p. 10.

1758

Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert published, allegedly at Hamburg, a book called L'Ami des femmes, which remarked on the number and excellence of women writers in French.

Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.

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