[59] Cousin’s Jacqueline, p. 189.
[60] Cousin’s Jacqueline, p. 161.
[61] Relation de la Sœur Jacqueline de Sainte-Euphémie Pascal à Port Royal, 10 Juin 1653—a long narrative, extending to about 50 pages of Cousin’s volume. See also Lettres, Opuscules, etc., ed. by Faugère, pp. 177–222.
[63a] Relation de la Sœur Jacqueline, etc., p. 182.
[63b] Ibid., p. 187.
[63c] Ibid., p. 194.
[63d] Mémoire, Faugère, p. 453.
[64] Jacqueline Pascal, pp. 237, 244.
[65a] Marguerite Périer says that Pascal had always a room at the Duc de Roannez’s, and that he stayed there frequently, although he had a house of his own in Paris.
[65b] Lélut, p. 234. Women throughout this time took the lead, and were never so active, even in French politics. “Beautiful, witty, and dissolute, they brought into public affairs their frivolous ideas, and sacrificed to their vanity their honour and that of their houses.”—La Vallée, Hist. des Français, t. iii. p. 195, quoted in Kitchin’s Hist. of France, vol. iii. p. 114.