They broke up briefly and Emilie plunged into an affair on the rebound with Moreau de Maupertuis, an explorer and scientist. Although intellectually they were compatible, she didn't love him the way she loved Voltaire. ...
Maupertuis got into a dispute with one Konig. The king took his president's part; Voltaire took Konig's. But Maupertuis must needs write his Letters, and thereupon (1752) appeared one of Voltaire's most famous, though perhaps not one of ...
1698 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759) * 1831 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861) * 1839 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916 * 1877 - Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian conductor (d. 1960) ...
