The lavish French biopic
Divine Émilie (2007) stars
Léa Drucker as eighteenth-century scientist and noblewoman
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet. A woman ahead of her time, Châtelet translated the work of
Isaac Newton into French with her own commentary, was a lover of
Voltaire, and made important discoveries about the nature of energy that preceded
Einstein. You’ll be pleased
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