Note 9 — CHAPTER SIX RETURN OF HALLEY’S COMET IN 1910

In Rebièrés’ Les Femmes dans la Science he writes as follows about Madame Lepaute: “A little girl of six years when taunted one day by her sister with the remark, ‘I am prettier than you,’ made the ready rejoinder, ‘But I am wiser.’ The future career of Nicole Rêine Étable de la Briére, afterwards wife of the famous clock-maker, Jean André Lepaute, proved the truthfulness of her boast.”