Editing Charles Sanders Peirce (section)

=== Personal life ===
[[File:JulietteAndCharles.JPG|thumb|upright=1.25|Juliette and Charles by a well at their home Arisbe in 1907]]
Peirce's personal life undoubtedly worked against his professional success. After his first wife, [[Melusina Fay Peirce|Harriet Melusina Fay]] ("Zina"), left him in 1875,<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=98–101}}</ref> Peirce, while still legally married, became involved with [[Juliette Peirce|Juliette]], whose last name, given variously as Froissy and Pourtalai,<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=141}}</ref> and nationality (she spoke French)<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=148}}</ref> remain uncertain.<ref>Houser, Nathan, "[http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v6/v6intro.htm Introduction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607100406/http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v6/v6intro.htm |date=2011-06-07  }}", ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce'', 6, first paragraph.</ref> When his divorce from Zina became final in 1883, he married Juliette.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=123, 368}}</ref> That year, Newcomb pointed out to a Johns Hopkins trustee that Peirce, while a Hopkins employee, had lived and traveled with a woman to whom he was not married; the ensuing scandal led to his dismissal in January 1884.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=150–151, 368}}</ref> Over the years Peirce sought academic employment at various universities without success.<ref>In 1885 ({{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=369}}); in 1890 and 1900 (p. 273); in 1891 (pp. 215–216); and in 1892 (pp. 151–152, 222).</ref> He had no children by either marriage.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=77}}</ref>