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2 unusual facts about Jean de Chastelet


Jean de Chastelet

During all his work for the French state, du Chatelet had never received payment and in 1640 in a precarious financial state his wife Martine wrote the Restitution of Pluto a Latin poem asking for payment and sent rather rashly to Cardinal Richelieu.

Martine Bertereau

She married Jean de Chastelet, Baron de Beausoleil et d'Auffenbach an expert in mining.



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