Cirey

For Voltaire, the trigger that sent him to Cirey in the first place also provided the impetus for much of his work while there.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Gandt, François de, 2001, Cirey dans la vie intellectuelle: la réception de Newton en France, Oxford:

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Had it been executed, a royal lettre de cachet would have sent Voltaire to the royal prison of the Bastille as a result of the book; instead, he was able to flee with Du Châtelet to Cirey where the couple used the sovereignty granted by her aristocratic title to create a safe haven and base for Voltaire's new position as a philosophical rebel and writer in exile.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Maupertuis was also an occasional guest at Cirey, and a correspondent with both du Châtelet and Voltaire throughout these years.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Voltaire wrote, but left unfinished at Cirey, a Traité de metaphysique that explored the question of human freedom in philosophical terms.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009

Soon they were back living at Cirey again and working.

Archive 2009-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

I met her once at her Chateau de Cirey and she told me when she was young, her father trained her to fence and ride, and that she sang opera and enjoyed acting in Voltaire's productions on their own Little Theatre that still stands today.

Archive 2009-03-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

I met her once at her Chateau de Cirey and she told me when she was young, her father trained her to fence and ride, and that she sang opera and enjoyed acting in Voltaire's productions on their own Little Theatre that still stands today.

Émilie, marquise du Châtelet Young Geoffrion 2009

To still the gossip about whose child she was carrying, Emilie's husband came to Cirey for a few weeks, while Voltaire made a hasty exit.

Archive 2009-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

Once installed at Cirey, both Voltaire and Du Châtelet further exploited this apparent division by engaging in a campaign on behalf of Newtonianism, one that continually targeted an imagined monolith called French Academic Cartesianism as the enemy against which they were fighting.

Voltaire Shank, JB 2009