Passionate minds : the great love affair of the Enlightenment, featuring the scientist Emilie Du Chatelet, the poet Voltaire, sword fights, book burnings, assorted kings, seditious verse, and the birth of the modern world : Bodanis, David : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-354) and index

Before -- Emilie: Paris and Versailles, 1706-1725 -- Francois: Paris and the Bastille, 1717-1725 -- Young Woman: Burgundy and Paris, 1727-1731 -- Exile and Return: London, 1726, to Paris, 1733 -- Meeting -- Meeting ... and Caution: Paris, 1733-1734 -- Hunted: Montjeu, Philippsburg, and Paris, 1734 -- Decision: Chateau de Cirey, and Paris, 1734-1735 -- Together -- Chateau de Cirey: Cirey, 1735+ -- Newton at Cirey: Chateau de Cirey, 1735-1736 -- Dutch Escape: Cirey and the Low Countries, 1736-1737 -- Michelle: Paris, late 1600s and 1737 -- Emilie's Cirey -- Voltaire's Fire: Cirey, March-August 1737 -- Emilie's Fire: Cirey, August 1737-May 1738 -- New Starts: Cirey, 1738 -- Travels -- Leibniz's World: Brussels, 1739 -- New House, New King: Paris, 1739 -- Frederick: Flanders and Prussia, 1740-1741 -- Apart -- The Wound in My Heart: Paris and Versailles, Mid-1740s -- Recovery ... and Escape: Paris, Versailles, and Fontainebleau, 1745-1747 -- To Sceaux: The Court, late 1670s; Paris and Chateau de Sceaux, November 1747 -- Zadig: Chateau de Sceaux, November-December 1747 -- Luneville -- The Court of Stanislas and Catherine: Luneville, 1748 -- Saint-Lambert: Luneville, 1748 -- Collapse: Luneville, 1748 -- Finale -- Pregnancy: Cirey and Paris, Christmas Eve 1748-April 1749 -- A Portal Unto the Stars: Lincolnshire, 1600s, and France, 1749 -- What Followed