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Marie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville (''née'' Darlus, also known as la présidente Thiroux d’Arconville and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville) was a French author and chemist. ==Biography== Daughter of the rich tax-farmer André-Guillaume Darlus, Geneviève married Louis-Lazare Thiroux d'Arconville, counsel at the ''parlement'' of Paris (later president of the ''chambre des enquêtes'', hence her honorific ''la presidente'') when she was fourteen years old. At twenty-three years old Thiroux d'Arconville contracted smallpox, which scarred her for life. Thenceforth she shied away from public spectacle, embraced austere Jansenist morals and dedicated her life to study. Thiroux d'Arconville's interests included history, physics, chemistry, natural history and even medicine. She took classes in anatomy at the ''Jardin du Roi'' where a few women were admitted. She wrote and translated works on diverse subjects but they were invariably published anonymously in her lifetime. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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