Elisabeth badinter madame du chatelet biography
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Emilie, Emilie : l'ambition feminine au XVIIIe siecle / Elisabeth Badinter
- Bib ID:
- 765058
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- Book
- Author:
- Badinter, Elisabeth, 1944-
- Description:
- Paris : Flammarion, 1983
- 489 p. : 2 ports. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 2082100898
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Discours du le bonheur (1746/1747) by Emilie du Châtelet. (1706-1749) English title:Discourse on Happiness.
My participating to Paris in July organised by Bellezza, Karen, Tamara and Adria feels a bit like cheating. The aim of this blogging event is to celebrate anything French and since I’m French and living in France, I ooze Frenchness with all my pores. What kind of challenge is that? Actually, I wanted to take the opportunity of this rendezvous with French culture to read and write about Le discours sur le bonheur d’Emilie du Châtelet. (Discourse on Happiness)
I discovered Emilie du Châtelet when I read Voltaire’s biography. They had a tumultuous relationship but remained friends until she died. Emilie du Châtelet was a born scientist; she studied mathematics and physics and her most important achievement is the translation of Newton’s work into French. For a long time, her translation remained the only one available in French. She was brilliant and Voltaire admired her mind. If she were born today in this country, she could have a stellar career. But she was a woman in the 18thC and according to her, studying hard was the only way a woman could reach fame and posterity. She sure did and not only as Voltaire’s lover and study buddy.
With her discourse, Emil