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NOTES.
[3] Lettres, Opuscules, et Mémoires de Madame Périer et de Jacqueline, Sœurs de Pascal, et de Marguerite Périer, sa nièce; publiés sur les Manuscrits originaux, par M. P. Faugère. Paris, 1845.
[4a] Jacqueline Pascal, par M. Victor Cousin. Troisième éd. 1856. Lélut, L’Amulette de Pascal. Paris, 1846.
[4b] Sainte-Beuve. Port Royal. Tom. ii. iii. Mr Beard, in his two volumes on Port Royal, gives an excellent sketch of Blaise and Jacqueline Pascal, in which he has made a diligent use of all the recent French authorities on the subject.
[4c] British Quarterly Review, August 1850.
[5] The Provincial Parliaments in France before the Revolution discharged within a definite area the same judicial and administrative functions as the Parliament of Paris; but they were always regarded as offshoots of the latter, and subordinate to its supreme direction. They possessed no lawful political powers. Lalanne, Dictionnaire Historique, Art. “Parl.,” p. 1421. The “Court of Aides,” according to the same authority, p. 32, decided in the last resort civil and criminal processes relating to subsidies, assessments, and taxes in general, and superintended the collection of the royal revenues.
[6a] Gilberte Pascal—Madame Périer—says, in her life of her brother, 1626. Marguerite Périer, her daughter, Pascal’s niece, says 1628. Cousin (B. Pascal), App. I. 315. Faugère, Lettres, Opuscules, etc., p. 419.
[6b] Cousin, Jacqueline Pascal, p. 23.
[7] Memoir by Marguerite Périer, her daughter, quoted by Cousin, ibid., p. 24. “Do not think,” adds Cousin, “that this portrait is embellished: the austere Marguerite flatters no one; and if she, a Jansenist, says that her mother was beautiful, we may be sure that she was very much so.”