Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
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Publisher: Readers Union/Hamish Hamilton
Condition: Used (Good)
Format: Softcover
Voltaire in Love is Nancy Mitford’s unparalleled depiction of Voltaire’s fifteen-year love affair with the Marquise du Châtelet, the celebrated mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France.
First published in 1957, the book also explores the French Enlightenment including historical characters and varying attributes of the era’s politics and society.