Emilie Du Chatelet

<b>The captivating biography of the French aristocrat who balanced the demands of her society with passionate affairs of the heart and a brilliant life of the mind</b> <p/> Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil Marquise Du Châtelet (1706-1749) was more than a great man's mistress. After marrying a marquis at the age of eighteen she proceeded to fulfill the prescribed-and delightfully frivolous-role of a French noblewoman of her time. But she also challenged it conducting a highly visible affair with a commoner writing philosophical works and translating Newton's <i>Principia</i> while pregnant by a younger lover. With the sweep of <i>Galileo's Daughter Emilie Du Châtelet </i>captures the charm glamour and brilliance of this magnetic woman.