@article{324268,
      recid = {324268},
      author = {Zinsser, Judith P.},
      title = {La dame d'esprit : a biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet  /},
      publisher = {Viking,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {viii, 376 p., [16] pages of plates :},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {The only woman of the Enlightenment to be recognized for  her genius, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil was  born to the highest circles of the French aristocracy,  married a marquis at the age of eighteen, and indulged in  all the pleasures of her class. Then, at 27, defying  convention, she became the mistress of Voltaire, embarking  on an extraordinary and transformative intellectual journey  as his patroness, lover and companion. Historian Zinsser  explores how she transformed herself from courtier, wife,  and mother into one of the leading intellects of the French  Enlightenment, an accomplished mathematician, physicist,  translator, and author of original works of philosophy and  science. At the end of her life, pregnant by a young new  lover, she raced to complete her translation and commentary  on Newton's Principia. By bringing this singular woman to  life with style and wit, Zinsser at last gives this  revolutionary her due.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/324268},
}