Ce diable d'homme (1978– )
Episode List
1978
18 May 1978
Émilie contre Frédéric
To escape his arrest, Voltaire hides for a while with his friend, the Duke of Richelieu. In 1733, another person gives him asylum, Emilie, marquise du Châtelet. For Voltaire, this is an incredible opportunity. Everything is wonderful about her: the sensuality of the young woman of course, who hardly sees her husband, always at war, but also her outstanding intelligence. She is indeed a brilliant woman of letters, a philosopher, a mathematician and a physicist. They become lovers and are very happy, physically and intellectually, but three years later, an unexpected ...
1978