Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds.
Mitford writes with a profound sympathy for the 17th and 18th century, and Voltaire in Love caps her career as the nonpareil popular biographer of that era * Washington Post *
One of the most blissfully entertaining books in our language * New Yorker *
Nancy Mitford softened the image of the leader of the French Enlightenment with a witty little book called Voltaire in LoveMitford took pleasure in showing that the celebrated reformer was much more than a desiccated brainbox * Independent *
One of the most blissfully entertaining books in our language * New Yorker *
Nancy Mitford softened the image of the leader of the French Enlightenment with a witty little book called Voltaire in LoveMitford took pleasure in showing that the celebrated reformer was much more than a desiccated brainbox * Independent *
Nancy Mitford was born in London on November 28 1904, daughter of the second Baron Redesdale, and the eldest of six girls. Her sisters included Lady Diana Mosley; Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire and Jessica, who immortalised the Mitford family in her autobiography Hons and Rebels. The Mitford sisters came of age during the Roaring Twenties and wartime in London, and were well known for their beauty, upper-class bohemianism or political allegiances. Nancy contributed columns to The Lady and the Sunday Times, as well as writing a series of popular novels including The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, which detailed the high-society affairs of the six Radlett sisters. While working in London during the Blitz, Nancy met and fell in love with Gaston Palewski, General de Gaulle's chief of staff, and eventually moved to Paris to be near him. In the 1950s she began writing historical biographies - her life of Louis XIV, The Sun King, became an international bestseller. Nancy completed her last book, Frederick the Great, before she died of Hodgkin's disease on 30 June 1973.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099528890 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099528894 |
| Title | Voltaire in Love |
| Author | Nancy Mitford |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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