La Dame d'Esprit: A Biography of Marquise Du Chatelet

The scintillating life of the most brilliant woman of the French Enlightenment, the lover of Voltaire and translator of Newton

Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born to the highest circles of the French aristocracy, married a marquis at the age of eighteen, and indulged in all the pleasures of her class. Then at twenty-seven, defying convention, she became the mistress of poet and playwright Voltaire, embarking on an extraordinary and transformative intellectual jour…