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	ninemsn Encarta - Pascal, Blaise
		Pascal espoused Jansenism and in 1654 entered the Jansenist community at Port Royal, where he led a rigorously ascetic life until his death eight years later.
		In 1656 he wrote the famous 18 Lettres provinciales (Provincial Letters), in which he attacked the Jesuits for their attempts to reconcile 16th-century naturalism with orthodox Roman Catholicism.
		He is generally ranked among the finest French polemicists, especially in the Lettres provinciales, a classic in the literature of irony.
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	Blaise Pascal - Dangeruss-Industries.com
		Most of these contributions were made early in his life, as following a mystical experience in 1654, he fell away from mathematics and physics and devoted himself to reflection and writing about philosophy and theology.
		This period was characterized by the composition of his two most famous works, the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées.
		In 1661, the Jansenist school at Port-Royal was condemned and closed down; those involved in it had to sign a 1656 papal bull condemning the teachings of Jansen as heretical.
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	[PASCAL, Blaise]., Les Provinciales: or, the Mysterie of Jesuitisme, discover'd in certain Letters, Written upon ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Les Provinciales: or, the Mysterie of Jesuitisme, discover'd in certain Letters, Written upon occasion of the present differences at Sorbonne, between the Jansenists and the Molinists, from January 1656.
		Against the relaxed morality which the Jesuits were said to teach, he makes a vigorous appeal to public opinion by means of quotations from Jesuit works and by dialogues in which Jesuits are made, by their admissions, to cast discredit on themselves.
		The Lettres provinciales, written with polite irony and the utmost simplicity, lucidity, and objectivity, were an enormous success and dealt the Jesuits a blow from which they never recovered.
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	Blaise Pascal biography
		Yet, with the equipment of his unsurpassed literary instinct and scientific training, he entered on his famous controversy with the Jesuits in the 18 Lettres provinciales.
		It is evident that they were written under intense excitement, stimulated by the supposed miraculous cure of his niece through contact with a relic of the crown of thorns at Port-Royal.
		For Pascal had not yet finished Les provinciales when he conceived the idea of supplementing this destructive work of criticism by a constructive Apologie de la religion chrétienne, by which, of course, he meant Jansenism.
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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Blaise_Pascal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the PensÃ©es.
		Aside from their religious influence, the Lettres provinciales were popular as a literary work.
		Pascal's use of humor, mockery, and vicious satire in his arguments made the letters ripe for public consumption, and influenced the prose of later French writers like Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Blaise Pascal
		The occasion of the "Provinciales" was an accident.
		The "Petites lettres" followed to the number of nineteen, the last unfinished, from January, 1656, to March, 1657.
		As to their literary form, the "Provinciales" are, in point of time, the first prose masterpiece of the French language, in their satirical humour and passionate eloquence.
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	Antoine Arnauld. Who is Antoine Arnauld? What is Antoine Arnauld? Where is Antoine Arnauld? Definition of Antoine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		During this time he produced innumerable Jansenist pamphlets.
		In 1655 two very outspoken Lettres a duc et pair on Jesuit methods in the confessional brought a motion to expel him from the Sorbonne.
		This motion was the immediate cause of Blaise Pascal's Lettres Provinciales.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Antoine_Arnauld (575 words)

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		Co 627bLe matelot remit donc à Paul les lettres sans lui rien dire.
		Co 637gargent avec cent mille francs de lettres de change pour essayer du jeu.
		IP 303g, sur laquelle étaient peints en lettres jaunes, sur un fond vert, ces
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	Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		(Ppasfukkal; Blaise Pascal) Ludovici Montaltii Litterae provinciales, 1775.
		Lettres becrites aa un provincial Notes: Davidson, H.M. A concordance to Pascal's Les provinciales, 1980: -- t.p.
		Litterae provinciales Notes: Ludovici Montaltii Litterae provinciales, 1775.
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	Blaise Pascal - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pascal denounced casuistry as the mere use of complex reasoning to justify moral laxity.
		His writings on this subject, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, appeared as the Lettres provinciales, or "Provincial Letters." This work incensed King Louis XIV of France who ordered in 1660 that the book be shredded and burnt.
		Pascal's most influential theological work, the Pensées, was unfinished by his death, but a version of his notes for that book appeared in print in 1670, eight years after, and it soon became a classic of devotional literature.
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	Lettres provinciales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lettres provinciales (Provincial letters) are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte.
		Letter XIV contains the famous quote, "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
		Pascal's use of wit, humor, and mockery in attacking existing institutions made his work extremely popular.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lettres_provinciales (247 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lettres provinciales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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		Letter XIV contains the famous quote, "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." Jansenism was a branch of Christian philosophy founded by Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), a Flemish theologian.
		The reaction to the Lettres provinciales was substantial.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lettres-provinciales (698 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Pascal's Lettres Provinciales: a Study in Polemic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is the first comprehensive study to appear in English of the controversial Lettres Provinciales (1656-7), Pascal's major polemical work against the Society of Jesus.
		He analyses in detail the substance and structure of the letters themselves, a process which casts light on the nature of polemic as a literary genre.
		Finally, the author explores the links between the Provinciales and Pascal's Pensees, demonstrating a closer connection between the two works than is generally recognized, and offering some insight into the relationship between polemics and apologetics.
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	Lettres Provinciales articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Lettres provinciales (Provincial letters) are a series of eighteen letters written by FranceFrench philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte.
		The later letters find Pascal more on the defensive - pressure on the Port Royal Jansenists to renounce their teachings was constantly growing through this time - and contain the assault on casuistry.
		Letter XIV contains the famous quote, "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." The reaction to the Lettres provinciales was substantial.
	www.startlearningnow.com /Lettres%20provinciales.htm (374 words)

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		To assist them in their struggles against the Jesuits, he wrote, under a pseudonym, a defense of the famous Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, in the form of 18 epistles.
		Known as Lettres provinciales, they were likely responsible for the subsequent reputation of the Jesuits as hypocritical and casuistic.
		In 1658 he broke with the Jansenists and left the monastery.
	www.phy.hr /~dpaar/fizicari/xpascal.html (371 words)

	Lev Shestov - In Job's Balances - Part III - Pascal,5
		It seems, at first sight, as though he were already beginning his own defence in these letters (which were also what laid the foundation of his reputation).
		When he wrote the Lettres Provinciales the opinion of five or six neighbours sufficed to make him personally feel that he was approved by the whole world, by the men of his own generation and of the future.
		The Provinciales are, in general, quite up to the scientific level of their period, and historians look upon the Letters as a progressive production.
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	Les Lettres etc - Question.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Article 8 : Présentation des lettres de créance, etc. Les lettres de créance et pleins pouvoirs visés à l'article 6 ainsi que les lettres ou autres documents visés à...
		Le système permet d'inclure les lettres accentuées de trois manières: 1) Ecrire la lettre...
		Les lettres formelles (lettres de candidature, de plaintes, réponse à une annonce, etc.)...
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	Blaise Pascal by Malcolm Muggeridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Moreover, the most mundane of his writings, the famous Lettres provinciales (Provincial Letters) were undertaken, almost by chance, after his conversion and involved him as one of the principals in the bitter controversy then raging between the Jesuits and the Jansenists.
		Persecution followed the appearance of the Lettres provinciales, and the religious at Port Royal were required to adhere to an equivocal statement of orthodoxy – an exercise in casuistry that killed poor Jacqueline, or at any rate hastened her early death.
		As for the Lettres provinciales, they hold their place in Pascal’s oeuvre, but as literature (or perhaps better, as an early, brilliant essay in journalism) rather than as an apologia for Jansenism.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Augustin Barruel
		His first important work was "Les Helveiennes, ou Lettres Provinciales philosophiques" (Amsterdam, 1781).
		In the meantime, national affairs in France were growing more and more turbulent, but Barruel continued his literary activity, which from now on occupied itself specially with public questions.
		In 1789 appeared "Lettres sur le Divorce", a refutation of a book by Hennet.
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	Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The principle that liquid in a vessel carries pressures in all directions is called Pascal's Law.
		A mystical experience in 1654 led him to join his sister, who was a member of the Jansenist convent at Port-Royal, where he defended Jansenism against the Jesuits in 'Lettres provinciales'.
		Fragments jotted down for a case book of Christian truth were discovered after his death and published as the Pensées.
	rubens.anu.edu.au /raider5/teaching.backups.2003/teach/introduction/www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/pascal.html (137 words)

	FreisslerSoft Books provinciales
		Manual de procedimientos ante la Inspecciâon General de Justicia y entes provinciales
		Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensees (Emf Monographs)
		Concilios provinciales y sinodos de Zaragoza de 1215 a 1563
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	97.10.30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Abandoning mathematics, he flung himself into the battle for the Jansenists (and the doomed Antoine Arnauld) against the Jesuits of the Sorbonne.
		In a remarkable series of eighteen pamphlets (these 'Lettres Provinciales') Pascal attacked the Jesuits' for their meaningless jargon, casuistry, and extreme moral laxity.
		Models for much of Voltaire, they are masterpieces of French prose, and they undermined unceasingly Jesuit authority and prestige.
	www.netrax.net /~rarebook/s971030.htm (262 words)

	Myriobiblos On Line Library of the Church of Greece - English Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He attained considerable influence in St. Petersburg society, for a time he was a friend and confidant of Alexander I, and perhaps entertained hopes of converting Russia to an ultramontane, authoritarian Catholicism, which he felt was civilization's last hope against the demonic forces of revolution.
		Later in life, however, he concentrated on religious-philosophical writing, particularly in defense of the Jansenists, whose harsh and ascetical doctrine resembled Calvinism to a degree (they were condemned in the papal bull Unigenitus in 1705).
		Pascal's Lettres provinciales and Pensees were influential on such later western thinkers as Rousseau, Henri Bergson, and the Existentialists.
	www.myriobiblos.gr /texts/english/florovsky_ways_chap5notes.html (16035 words)

	Blaise Pascal - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		During his short life he left his mark on mathematics, physics, religious controversy and literature.
		A convert to Jansenism, he engaged with gusto in a controversy with the Jesuits, which gave rise to his Lettres Provinciales on which, with the Pensées, his literary fame chiefly rests.
		A remarkable stylist, he is regarded by many as the greatest of French prose artists.
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	TABLE OF CONTENTS
		He prepared the way for the infinitesimal calculus by his work on calculating machines, entitled Lettres de Dettonville, from which Leibniz declared himself to have derived the ideas that led him to his own discovery.
		In this strain he wrote the Petites Lettres called the Provinciales, in order to confute, first the subtle theology, secondly the loose morals of the Jesuits.
		This work, by reason of its vigour, its high moral tone, its wit, its intensity, its dialectic force, its oratorical and dramatic power, is a masterpiece of the French language, and of the mind of man, and withal one of the most forcible attacks which the Society of Jesus has at any time sustained.
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	Blaise Pascal
		After a mystical experience on November 23-24, 1654, he had a second conversion, and defended Jansenism against the Jesuits in LETTRES PROVINCIALES (Provincial Letters).
		From 1655 he made occasional retreats to the Jansenist community at Port-Royal des Champs.
		LETTRES ÉCRITES PAR LOUIS DE MONTALTE À UN PROVINCIAL DE SES AMIS / LETTRES Á UN PROVINCIAL / LES PROVINCIALES, 1656-57 - Provincial Letters
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /bpascal.htm (1081 words)

	Alibris: Jansenists
		He approaches this paradox as an exercise in theology as well as in revisionist Christian history based on philosophical analysis.
		Dictates of conscience, however, brought all that to an end and put them in conflict with both king and pope....
		Lettres Écrites à un provincial par Blaise Pascal
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	L'Etranger : notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jean Grenier fut professeur de Lettres Supérieures puis de faculté.
		Défenseur acharné des jansénistes dans la lutte qui les opposait aux jésuites, Pascal écrivit contre ceux-ci les dix-huit Lettres provinciales (1656-1657), admirable pamphlet.
		Il lutta contre les Parthes (161) et les Germains (166-169) ; habile administrateur, il protégea les arts et les lettres.
	www.ac-strasbourg.fr /pedago/lettres/lecture/Netranger.htm (2328 words)

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		Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal: Les provinciales (Bibliotheca romanica.
		Les provinciales;: Ou, Les lettres eÃÂcrites par Louis de Montalte aÃÂ un provincial de ses amis et aux RR.
		Les provinciales: PreÃÂceÃÂdeÃÂ de Pascal et Port-Royal, (Les chefs-d'oeuvre, classiques et modernes)
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