Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706)
The wife of a French marquis, du Châtelet defied convention in both her personal and professional life. She was a mathematician and physicist and wrote a number of scientific treatises as well as a translation of Isaac Newton‘s Principia Mathematica. She had several extramarital affairs—the most enduring of which was with philosopher and writer Voltaire, who once described her as “a great man whose only fault was being a woman.” How did she once think her way out of a gambling debt? More… Discuss
euzicasa 
He’s getting on a bit now 😉
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indeed! :}
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I’d hate to see the candles on his cake
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me too
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