She gave up her little house in Périgord and moved to live in Tartaras in the vineyard region of the Côte-Rôtie in the vicinity of her close friends Bernard and Patricia Montaud.
He was a geometer, mathematician, member of the French Academy of Sciences (elected in 1768), corresponding member of the Academy of Berlin and Adademy of Bologna, honorary member of the Academy of St. Petersburg (1778), a collaborator with Denis Diderot for the mathematical part of the Encyclopedia, the father of the experimental hydrodynamics.
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