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Madame Curie Critical Essay #4
In the following introduction to Madame Curie,Eve Curie discusses her mother's benevolent and unassuming personality.
The life of Marie Curie contains prodigies in such number that one would like to tell her story like a legend.
She was a woman; she belonged to an oppressed nation; she was poor; she was beautiful. A powerful vocation summoned her from her motherland, Poland, to study in Paris, where she lived through years of poverty and solitude. There she met a man whose genius was akin to hers. She married him; their happiness was unique. By the most desperate and arid effort they discovered a magic element, radium. This discovery not only gave birth to a new science and a new philosophy: it provided mankind with the means of treating a dreadful disease.
At the moment when the fame of the two scientists and benefactors was spreading through the world,...
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