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MADAME CURIE A BIOGRAPHY BY EVE CURIE TRANSLATED BY VINCENT SHEEAN ILLUSTRATED DOUBLED AY COMPANY, INC. Garden City, New York MADAME CURIE A Biography MARIE CURIE A Portrait Made in 1929. Blanche de loner COPYRIGHT, 1937 BY DOUBLEDAY COMPANY, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Contents CHAPTER PAGE PART ONE INTRODUCTION t I MANYA 3 II DARK DAYS ij III ADOLESCENCE 30 IV VOCATIONS 47 V GOVERNESS 6b VI THE LONG WAIT 70 VII THE ESCAPE 81 PART TWO VIII PARIS 93 IX FORTY RUBLES A MONTH 105 X PIERRE CURIE 119 XI A YOUNG COUPLE 138 XII THE DISCOVERY OF RADIUM . ... 152 XIII FOUR YEARS IN A SHED 165 6120010 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XIV A. HARD LIFE i 8 XV A DOCTORS THESIS AND FIVE MINUTES TALK 93 XVI THE ENEMY 206 XVII EVERY DAY 5 XVIII APRIL 19, 1906 243 PART THREE XIX ALONE . 263 XX SUCCESSES AND ORDEALS 274 XXI WAR 28 XXII PEACE HOLIDAYS AT LARCOUEST . . 306 XXIII AMERICA 322 XXIV FULL BLOOM 337 XXV ON THE ILE SAINT-LOUIS 349 XXVI THE LABORATORY 3 XXVII THE END OF THE MISSION 37 APPENDIX 387 INDEX 3 Illustrations Marie Curie Frontispiece FACING PAG Mme Sklodovska, Marie Curies Mother 20 The Sklodovski Children 21 The House in Which Marie Curie, then Many a Sklodovska, Taught as a Governess 52 M. SkJodovski and His Three Daughters 53 The Two Positivists 84 The Diploma o the Second Nobel Prize Award Made to Mme Curie in 1911 85 A Page from Manya Sklodovskas Private Notebook, Written in 1885 85 The Curie Family 116 Pierre Curie, as He Appeared Lecturing to His Classes in 1906 . . 117 Two Views of the Shed at the School of Physics on the Rue Lhomond Where Radium Was Discovered 148 Pages from Marie Curies Work Books, 1897-1898 149 Henri Becquerel, the First Scientist toObserve the Phenomenon of Radioactivity 180 Pierre and Marie Curie with the Bicycles on Which They Roamed the Roads of France Together 181 Marie and Pierre Curie with Their Daughter, Irene, in 1904 . . 212 viii ILLUSTRATIONS Marie Curie and Her Two Daughters, Eve and Irene, in 1908 . . 213 Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and Their Daughter, Irene, in the Garden of the House on Boulevard Kellermann, 1904 . . . 244 Marie Curie in Her Laboratory, 1912 245 Marie Curie with Her Two Sisters, Mme Szalay and Mme Dluska, and Her Brother M. Sklodovski, Photographed in Warsaw in 1912 276 Mme Curie in Her Laboratory, in 1912 277 Marie Curie at the Wheel of the Famous Renault Car Converted into a Radiological Unit 292 Marie Curies Favorite Portrait of Her Husband 293 The Radium Institute at Warsaw 308 The Radium Institute at Paris 308 Mme Curie, Irene Curie and Pupils from the American Expedi tionary Corps, at the Institute of Radium in Paris 309 Marie Curie with Dean Pegram, Dean of the School of Engineer ing at Columbia University, 1921 324 Marie Curie Discussing a Scientific Problem at Pittsburgh During Her American Tour 325 Marie Curie and President Harding During Her Tour of the United States in 1921 340 Mme Curie in Her Office at the Radium Institute in Paris, 1925 . 341 A Group Photograph Made at the Institute of Radium in Paris . 356 Mme Curie and Her Daughter, Irene, 1925 357 Marie Curie in 1931, Three Years before Her Death 372 The Curie Family Tomb, in the Cemetery at Sceaux 373 Introduction T J. . H H E LIFE OF MARIE CURIE contains prodigies in such number that one would li e to tell her story li e 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 afyn 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...

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VINCENT SHEEAN NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD Doubleday, Doran Company, Inc. New York 1939 PRINTED AT THE Country Life Press, GARDEN CITY, N. v., u. 8. A. CL COPYRIGHT, 1939 BY VINCENT SHEEAN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying. Ye shall have peace whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. JEREMIAH IV, 10 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man 9 s foes shall be they of his own household. MATTHEW X, 34-36 Contents CHAPTER I The Thirteen Bus I CHAPTER II The Ebro 42 CHAPTER III By the Rivers of Babylon 89 CHAPTER IV Madrid 14.0 CHAPTER v The Wayside Inn 200 CHAPTER VI The Last Volunteer 235 CHAPTER VII Seberov 94 271 CONTENTS CHAPTER VIII The Triumph of the Swastika 302 CHAPTER IX Last Day on the Ebro 326 CHAPTER X Epilogue 342 viii NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD CHAPTER I The Thirteen Bus LHE DISTRICT of Maida Vale, according to the English novels of twenty or more years ago, was inhabited by light ladies, aspiring playwrights and gentlemen who were likely at any moment to be arrested by the police. If this was ever so and you cant always tell about English novels it is no longer so. The region exposes an innocent face to whatever sun it can get in a London December its . wide streets and blank brick houses, sometimes with gardens and oftener without, appear to harbor a population of blame less citizens. But then we Americans are always being taken in by English literature it is what they call our heritage. Millions of us who have never seen London feelthe cold thrust of mystery down our necks at the mention of Baker Street we hear the roll of the printing press when one street is named, the chink of coin when we read of an other. If Maida Vale is, after all, no odder than any pros perous district in New York or Chicago, and gives shelter and leg room to an equal number of merchants, bankers, film stars and legislators, we are wrong to be disappointed. NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD The fault lies partly in our gullible selves and partly with those English novels of the days before and just after the war of 1914-18, which purported to tell us what life in London was like and misled us so badly that we are always craning our necks from the top of the bus to exclaim So that is the Strand So that is Pall Mall In years of casual visits to London I had never beheld Maida Vale when I did it reminded me of Chicago. I might have written a letter of discovery to The Times, but didnt, for my only practical interest in Maida Vale was that somewhere near there was where you got the Thirteen Bus. I heard about the Thirteen Bus from a sound authority. When I have relatives up from the provinces, the sound authority said, I always take them for a nice ride on the Thirteen Bus. You go right through London and can do all your sight-seeing without getting off. It starts at Golders Green or Hendon or some such place, but you get on in the Abbey Road. Ive tried them all, and the Thirteen Bus is best. Well, I have tried it now, too, and am prepared to give a report. I can hardly do so without paying a fervent tribute to the London General Omnibus Company and to the Traffic Combine of which it forms a part for the solidity of its rolling stock for the unfailingcourtesy of its hired hands and for the extreme latitude permitted in such mat ters as smoking and lolling about on the top deck. No General Omnibus Company in the world indeed, no Traffic Combine can do you better for fivepence. Maida Vale is respectable upper-middle-class, with the wintry sun trickling down on well-fed people who are not 2

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