Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon

Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon d'Osangis (1724, Paris – 1767, Berlin) was a French mathematician and writer.

She was the daughter of the scientist Jean Pigeon. In 1744, she eloped with her teacher, mathematician Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval, to Switzerland, where they married, and then to Berlin. In 1752, she was a teacher of princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel.

Works

Le méchaniste (sic) philosophe ou Mémoire contenant plusieurs particularités de la vie et des ouvrages du sieur Jean Pigeon [son père], La Haye, 1750.

References

Assézat, Œuvres complètes de Diderot. Paris, Garnier, 1875. Vol. 9, p. 77.

1724 births

1767 deaths

French women mathematicians

18th-century French mathematicians

18th-century French women scientists

18th-century Prussian educators

18th-century Prussian women

18th-century Prussian people

18th-century French women