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Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon 
Summary
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 edit
- 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 edit
- Assézat, Œuvres complètes de Diderot. Paris, Garnier, 1875. Vol. 9, p. 77.
- Lifschitz, Avi (2012). Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford University Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0199661664.
- Prudhomme, Louis Marie (1830). Biographie universelle et historique des femmes célèbres mortes ou vivantes. Vol. 4. Lebigre.