Madame de Chastenay: Reading and writing practices in elementary mathematics in France after the Révolution
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Victorine de Chastenay (1771-1855) is well-known by the historians of the french Empire, Consulat and Restauration's periods through her Memoirs, a direct testimony of the french court life and the many policy mutations occurring after the Révolution. She is also recognized as an author through her french translation of The mysteries of Udolfo by Ann Radcliff in 1797, and several publications on history and literature. But this "heir of the Enlightenment" also invested sciences as astronomy, botany, physics, mathematics...She wrote thousands of manuscript pages through 50 years of sciences's studies. This talk aims at describing her reading and writing practices in elementary mathematics (mostly geometry of triangles) by analyzing her manuscripts. Some of those are reading records and others form personal geometry lessons. Through this study, we have a privileged insight into the ways some women (and men) could study mathematics from the Révolution to the Restauration in France, when excluded from the University or the Grandes écoles (Polytechnique, École centrale, École normale…).
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