Description
Product ID: | 9780099528890 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Voltaire in Love |
Authors: | Author: Nancy Mitford |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Émilie du Châtelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Émilie du Châtelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Château de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised the French aristocracy with their passionate love affair and provoked revolutions both political and scientific with their groundbreaking work in literature, philosophy and physics. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-10-06 |