Title: Blaise Pascal
First published: 1997
Description: This biography by Marvin R. O'Connell captures Pascal's life and times with a chronological narrative based on the published sources and Pascal's own works. From Pascal's early life as a child prodigy already experimenting in physics at the age of ten to his adult years as one of Europe's leading intellectuals, O'Connell takes readers on an eloquent journey into Pascal's world, showing them the passion that drove the man and the radical spirituality he sought in his own heart.

In the process, O'Connell also illumines the social, political, and religious intrigue of seventeenth-century Paris, especially the winner-take-all struggle between the Jesuits and the Jansenists, with whom Pascal himself was allied.
Subjects: Apologetics, Jansenists, History, Biography, Intellectual life, Pascal, blaise, 1623-1662, Apologetics, history, 17th century, France, intellectual life
Places: France
People: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: BX4735.P26 O26 1997