[60]. Bayle, Dict., art. Pascal, note K.
[61]. Abbé de Castres, Les Trois Siècles, ii. 63.
[62]. Barbier, Dict. des Ouvrages Anon. et Pseudon.
[63]. Tabaraud, Dissertation sur la foi qui est due au Temoignage de Pascal dans ses Lettres Provinciales, p. 12.—This work, published some years ago in France, contains a complete justification of Pascal’s picture of the Jesuits in the Provincials, accompanied with a mass of authorities. The above sentiments have been introduced into Pascal’s Thoughts. (See Craig’s translation, p. 185.)
[64]. Vie de Bossuet, t. iv. p. 19; Tabaraud, Dissert. sur la foi, &c., p. 43.
[65]. “The shocking doctrine of Jansenius and of St. Cyran, afforded at least as much room for ridicule as the pliant doctrine of Molina, Tambourin, and Vasquez.” (D’Alembert, Dest. of the Jesuits, p. 55.)
[66]. Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV., ii. 367.
[67]. Eichhorn, Geschichte der Lit., i. 426.