And on a lighter note, there's a play about Èmilie which seems to get performed a lot in the US, so when and if things go back to normal again, one of you might get to check it out: Émilie: La Marquise du Chatelet defends her life tonight
Great excerpt with Émilie doing science and sparking with Voltaire
Vid time: Émilie
Great excerpt with Émilie doing science and sparking with Voltaire
A trailer for a different production
another trailer yet another production
Re: Vid time: Émilie
(That first one... I saw that very company do Much Ado About Nothing a rather long time ago now, when I was in grad school, and it was quite good.)