Voltaire: The universe has lost the sublime Emilie

Epitaph of Madame du Châtelet

The universe has lost the sublime Emilie!
She loved the pleasures, the arts, the truth.
The gods, in giving her their soul and their genius,
kept only immortality for themselves.

        --Voltaire (pen name of François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire,1694-1778)  Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (1706–49), was a good friend of Voltaire's; a brilliant woman, she was a scientist, mathematician, translator of Newton and Virgil, and philosopher.

L’univers a perdu la sublime Émilie!
Elle aima les plaisirs, les arts, la vérité.
Les dieux, en lui donnant leur âme et leur génie,
N’avaient gardé pour eux que l’immortalité.