Name: Voltaire in Love
SKU: 51116072
Price: 608.00 TWD
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Author: Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 9780099528890

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Nancy Mitford

Synopsis "Voltaire in Love "

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. Nancy Mitford's account of the love affair of the Enlightenment is, in the author's own words, 'a shriek from beginning to end'.