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Rienzi and Bayou Bend joint History Book Club Discussion: Passionate Minds
Add to calendar Back to calendarRienzi and Bayou Bend joint History Book Club Discussion: Passionate Minds
- When
- November 09, 2016
- Where
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Rienzi Center for European Decorative Arts
1406 Kirby Drive
Houston,TX 77019 - Cost
- $.7800 - $713.639
Look to the MFAH for good books and great conversations! The two MFAH house museums host a discussion series about books on lifestyles and culture in American and Europe in the 1700s and 1800s. Meeting alternately at Rienzi and Bayou Bend, this History Book Club offers free discussions every other month.
Join Rienzi and Bayou Bend for good books and great conversations!
Meet at Rienzi to discuss David Bodanis’s Passionate Minds: Emilie du Châtelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment.
Bodanis uncovers the fascinating story of du Châtelet and Voltaire’s enthralling liaison that cultivated a relationship of science and discovery.
