[10] “The exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles; and the three interior angles are together equal to two right angles.”
[11] Baillet, Vie de Descartes, liv. V. c. v. p. 39.
“Ne vous étonnez pas, incomparable Armand,
Si j’ai mal contenté vos yeux et vos oreilles;
Mon esprit agité de frayeurs sans pareilles
Interdit à mon corps et voix et mouvement.
Mais pour me rendre ici capable de vous plaire,
Rappelez de l’exil mon misérable père.”
[13] Cousin, Jacqueline Pascal, pp. 72–75.
[15] The Intendant was a special Royal Commissioner, sent into the provinces to watch over the administration of justice and the finances.
[16] See Cousin, Jacqueline Pascal, pp. 78–80.
[17] M. Lélut’s volume (already referred to) deserves special attention in its bearing on Pascal’s health, and the character of his sufferings. He lays great stress on Pascal’s highly-strung nervous constitution, in connection both with the precocity of his genius, his physical sufferings, his religious susceptibility, and the profound melancholy which affected his later years. The study is very interesting in some respects, but is overstrained in its physiological details and imaginary analysis.
[18] Madame Périer, Vie de Pascal.
[20] A disciple and friend of François de Sales, who had been bishop of Bellay or Belley, but had at this time demitted his bishopric for the Abbey of Aulney-Havet.