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Nancymitford

Voltaire in Love

Voltaire in Love

by Nancy Mitford

Publisher Hamish Hamilton

Genre: General Fiction

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  • UK First Edition, First Printing


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  • Book Condition & Notes

    A dedication inside: To 'Vaele' Frank, Love from Muriel and Names. Christmas 1957. Some foxing to the edges, and bumps to the spine. Slight tear in the dust jacket on the spine.

About the book

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Émilie du Châtelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Château de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised the French aristocracy with their passionate love affair and provoked revolutions both political and scientific with their groundbreaking work in literature, philosophy and physics.

Nancy Mitford's account of the love affair of the Enlightenment is, in the author's own words, 'a shriek from beginning to end'.

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About the Author

Nancy Mitford

Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE, known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist. The eldest of the Mitford sisters, she was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period.

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