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Châtelet, Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du

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Châtelet, (Gabrielle) Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du (1706–1749)

French scientific writer and translator into French of Isaac Newton's Principia.

Her marriage to the Marquis du Châtelet in 1725 gave her the leisure to study physics and mathematics. She met controversial French writer Voltaire in 1733, and settled with him at her husband's estate at Cirey, in the Duchy of Lorraine. Her study of Newton, with whom she collaborated on various scientific works, influenced Voltaire's work. She independently produced the first (and only) French translation of Newton's Principia (published posthumously in 1759).



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