Pascal

When Cardinal Richelieu saw Étienne Pascal with his fifteen-year-old son, he was so struck by the family that he blurted out that he wanted to make something great of them. The boy was Blaise Pascal.

In seventeenth-century France, Étienne left his career in Clermont to educate his children in Paris, where Blaise’s quick mind grew amid a family rich in talent and religious feeling. The geometer, scientific discoverer and author of the Provincial Letters became a name known across literature, science and religion—but the man himself is harder to find. John Tulloch follows the clues in family memoirs, letters and Pascal’s writings, where admiration and devotion have sometimes blurred the portrait, and the records leave telling gaps. What lies behind the celebrated name?

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