L'œuvre d'Emilie du Châtelet, femme de lettres et de sciences, a marqué le Siècle des Lumières. Chaque année, le 10 septembre, date de sa mort à Lunéville, le Cercle de Madame du Châtelet honore sa ...

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Emilie du Chatelet, a mathematician, physicist and author who lived in the early 1700s, studied the properties and nature of fire. She translated Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” from Latin, an effort ...

The Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France publishes articles and information concerning French literature from the 15th century to the present day. It seeks to provide original and objective ...

“Legacy of Light” is a difficult play to describe – full of science and history offset by touches of mysticism and whimsy, and yet it has a simple message: Love is powerful. But alas, it’s not enough ...