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- Title
Entrepreneur of the "Republic of Letters": Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet, and Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees.
- Authors
Zinsser, Judith P.
- Abstract
Questions the usual categories and roles assigned to women active in the French Enlightenment using the case of Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Chatelet. Discussion on Du Chatelet's interpretation of Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees; Role as an entrepreneur between cultures; Ways in which the gendered assumptions may have denied the marquise a place among the ranks of the philosophes of 18th-century France; Relations with Voltaire.
- Subjects
FRANCE; FRENCH women authors; DU Chatelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749; WOMEN; VOLTAIRE, 1694-1778
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 2002, Vol 25, Issue 4, p595
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00161071-25-4-595