After Ada Lovelace
The same endurance belongs to the World Wars.
Passy only makes full sense inside a wider modern world where science, war, industry, and exposure all sharpen what knowledge can ask of the people who pursue it.
A violent modern age in which scientific discovery changes what bodies and states can do, without settling what any life should be asked to bear for it.
This step moves the visitor from one room and one failing body into the larger human setting pressing through it.
The era step explains why greatness in discovery can remain morally and physically costly without becoming theatrical.
Return to Marie with the wider age behind her in view.
After widening to the age, Passy reads less like private decline and more like one life still answering the demands of modern knowledge.
The wider age closes again in one room.
Passy gives the age a final human location instead of leaving it abstract.
Known
The repository's governed era registry places Marie Curie's time-anchor year within the World Wars period.
Uncertainty
Laboratory life, radiation exposure, and the interior discipline of scientific work are only partially captured by the wider World Wars grouping.