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Title:
Passionate minds : the great love affair of the Enlightenment, featuring the scientist Emilie Du Ch^atelet, the poet Voltaire, sword fights, book burnings, assorted kings, seditious verse, and the birth of the modern world
Author:
Bodanis, David
ISBN:
9780307237200
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Edition:
First American edition.
Physical Description:
373 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:
Books
Contents:
Before -- Emilie: Paris and Versailles, 1706-1725 -- Francois: Paris and the Bastille, 1717-1725 -- Young Woman: Burgundy and Paris, 1727-1731 -- Exile and Return: London, 1726, to Paris, 1733 -- Meeting -- Meeting...and Caution: Paris, 1733-1734 -- Hunted: Montjeu, Philippsburg, and Paris, 1734 -- Decision: Chateau de Cirey, and Paris, 1734-1735 -- Together -- Chateau de Cirey: Cirey, 1735+ -- Newton at Cirey: Chateau de Cirey, 1735-1736 -- Dutch Escape: Cirey and the Low Countries, 1736-1737 -- Michelle: Paris, late 1600s and 1737 -- Emilie's Cirey -- Voltaire's Fire: Cirey, March-August 1737 -- Emilie's Fire: Cirey, August 1737-May 1738 -- New Starts: Cirey, 1738 -- Travels -- Leibniz's World: Brussels, 1739 -- New House, New King: Paris, 1739 -- Frederick: Flanders and Prussia, 1740-1741 -- Apart -- The Wound in My Heart: Paris and Versailles, Mid-1740s -- Recovery...and Escape: Paris, Versailles, and Fontainebleau, 1745-1747 -- To Sceaux: The Court, late 1670s; Paris and Chateau de Sceaux, November 1747 -- Zadig: Chateau de Sceaux, November-December 1747 -- Luneville -- The Court of Stanislas and Catherine: Luneville, 1748 -- Saint-Lambert: Luneville, 1748 -- Collapse: Luneville, 1748 -- Finale -- Pregnancy: Cirey and Paris, Christmas Eve 1748-April 1749 -- A Portal Unto the Stars: Lincolnshire, 1600s, and France, 1749 -- What Followed.
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Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006008059.html
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