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And here we have Fermat's Last Post-it.
I've talked about Fermat's Last Theorem before, so al I need to do here is provide the appropriate link.
I thought Wikipedia would provide the answer, but alas its article on Fermat is (as of this writing) utterly silent about the topic of whether he was married or not. Which seems an odd oversight for an article about such a prominent person - if the facts are known.
A quick bit of searching found several articles, each of which contains a subset of details about Fermat's private life. Putting it all together, it seems that on the date 1 June, 1631, at the age of 23, Fermat married one Louise de Long, who was a fourth cousin of his mother Claire de Fermat (née de Long), making her Fermat's fourth cousin once removed. Louise was 15 years old at the time of the marriage, turning 16 a month later. The couple had eight children, five of whom survived to adulthood: two sons, Clément-Samuel and Jean, and three daughters, Claire, Catherine, and Louise.
According to one genealogy site, Louise (Fermat's wife, not the daughter of the same name) lived until at least 1690, outliving Fermat (who dies in 1665) by at least 25 years.
Now, if anyone would like to do the research and tell me if Mr and Mrs Fermat in fact owned a cat, I would be most grateful.
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