Marie and Pierre Curie married in the French commune of Sceaux in 1895. The ceremony linked Marie’s Paris scientific life with Pierre’s family, which had strong connections to the town.
They met in Paris in 1894 through the physicist Józef Wierusz-Kowalski and were drawn together by their shared interest in scientific research. After a brief period in which Marie considered returning to Poland, she accepted Pierre’s proposal. Their marriage began one of science’s most productive partnerships.
Sceaux is in the Hauts-de-Seine department, southwest of central Paris. The Curies lived there, and Pierre’s father, Eugène Curie, practiced medicine in the town. Pierre was later buried in Sceaux after his accidental death in 1906; Marie was initially buried there too, before both were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris in 1995.