"""Du Châtelet (1706-1749) Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the Marquise Du Châtelet """"Let us reflect a bit why, at no time in the course of so many centuries, a good tragedy, a good poem, a respected tale, a beautiful painting, a good book of physics has ever come from the hand of a woman."""" - Preface to her translation of Mandeville's """"Fable of the Bees"""" (Project Vox translation)"""