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In May 1597, his mother Jeanne Brochard, died a few days after giving birth to a still-born child. [24] [23] Descartes's father, Joachim, was a member of the Parlement of Rennes at Rennes. [25]: 22 René lived with his grandmother and with his great-uncle.
Francine Descartes (19 July 1635, Deventer – 7 September 1640, Amersfoort) was René Descartes's daughter. Francine was the daughter of Helena Jans van der Strom, [ 1 ] a domestic servant of Thomas Sergeant — a bookshop owner and associate of Descartes at whose house in Amsterdam Descartes lodged on 15 October 1634.
Jeanne Brochard (1597), mother of René Descartes, died after giving birth to a stillborn child; Gabrielle d'Estrées (1599), mistress of the French King, died following eclampsia; Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier (1627), Duchess of Orléans; Jeanne Sconin Racine (1641), mother of Jean Racine, died while giving birth to her second child ...
Upon showing the queen some of the letters, Christina became interested in beginning a correspondence with Descartes. She invited him to Sweden, but Descartes was reluctant until she asked him to organize a scientific academy. Christina sent a ship to pick up the philosopher and 2,000 books. [49] Descartes arrived on 4 October 1649.
Catherine Descartes began to feminize Rene Descartes's works, adding more elements of ladies in power influencing the outcomes of his works. While there is no clear reason as to why Catherine Descartes's opinion of her uncle's work changed, his work also is credited with bringing forth a figurative death of Rene Descartes's works at the time. [4]
In her critically received book [3] on Descartes (2003), Alanen goes beyond mere history, drawing out the historical antecedents and the intellectual evolution of Descartes' thinking about the mind, showing how his emphasis on the embodiment of the mind has implications far more complex and interesting than the usual dualist account associated ...
In the first part of his work, Descartes ponders the relationship between the thinking substance and the body. For Descartes, the only link between these two substances is the pineal gland (art. 31), the place where the soul is attached to the body. The passions that Descartes studies are in reality the actions of the body on the soul (art. 25).
She was the younger half-sister of his mother from his grandfather's second marriage to Madeleine de Lenoncourt. [1] Together, they were the parents of: [3] Françoise Paule Charlotte d'Albert (1662–1670), who died young. [1] Marie Anne d'Albert (1663–1679), who married her second cousin, Charles III, Prince of Guéméné. [7]