Benjamin Thompson
Paulze eventually remarried, following a four-year courtship and engagement to Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). Rumford was one of the most well-known physicists at the time, but the marriage between the two was difficult and short-lived. Paulze also insisted throughout her life that she retain the last name of her first husband, demonstrating her undying devotion to him. Paulze died suddenly in her home in Paris on 10 February 1836, at the age of 78.
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