Moving Bodies

Love, genius, and the plight of womanhood.

Written by Lorraine Liscio

Paris 1740, the Age of Enlightenment. When the Marquise du Châtelet and Voltaire take opposing sides in a controversy over Newtonian physics, sparks fly and one of the greatest love affairs of the eighteenth-century takes flight. Defiant, excessive and real, the unapologetic, scientist Emilie du Châtelet fought for her place as one of her century’s greatest scientists with work that endures to this day. She is responsible for Newton’s formula of gravity. Set against one of the greatest love stories of the eighteenth-century, with two of the greatest minds the world has ever known, Moving Bodies is a Dangerous Liaisons of another kind. Based on a true story.

“Let’s stop this rabid bickering. We share women’s lot. Society’s interdictions and men’s privilege leave us to fend for ourselves and each other. Our Reason, similar to men’s, is blocked by some invisible force on this side of the barrier.” —Emilie du Châtelet, Moving Bodies