Abstract

Jean-Noël Pascal : D'Alembert's dream of love. After a brief account of d'Alembert's relationship with Julie de Lespinasse, this article studies the two "tombs" which the mathematician dedicated to his friend. It appears that the woman who looked on him as simply a friend was the object on his part of a devouring, romantic passion, which appears under the effect of the shock of her death but loses its pathetic spontaneity as time passes. D'Alembert appears to have dreamed an impossible love for Julie de Lespinasse.

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