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Emilie du Châtelet
In Our Time: Science
The Most Important of Her Lovers Would Have Been Voltaire
After five years of marriage, she starts having affairs with other people. But throughout the rest of their life together, her husband and she appear to have an entirely amicable relationship. There's no evidence that he himself has affairs with other women. They work together very well in the family enterprise of promoting each other. And so this is a very successful family unit in the terms of the day. The most important of her lovers would be voltaire. Can you tell thelis wet why he was important? Right?"
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