Pascal, Blaise, exalted character of, I. 183. His family noble, 184. His parents, 184. Education as proposed by his father Etienne, 185. His companions, men of science, 136. His untutored exertions in mathematics, 187. His father's delight on discovering his studies, 187. Reads Euclid by himself, 188. Writes on conic sections, 188. His sisters, 188. Jacqueline Pascal assists in obtaining their father's recal by Richelieu, 189. He studies languages and metaphysics, 190. Chronical ill-health the result of excessive application, 190. His arithmetical computator, 190. His investigation of the properties of atmospheric air, 191. "On the Equilibrium of Liquids," 194. "On the Weight of the Atmosphere." 194. His early piety, 195. His loss of health, 195. And of his father, 196. An accident in a coach influences his mind, 196. His seclusion from worldly intercourse, 197. His visits to Port Royal, 198. "Lettres Provinciales" by, 199. Success of Pascal, 201. Reputation of his work among the learned for style and eloquence, 202. His adherence to rules of privation, &c. causes chronical maladies, 204. His solution of the problem of the cycloid, and other questions in geometry, 204. His challenge to furnish a solution of these problems accepted by Wallis and Huygens, &c., 205. Pascal's triumph therein, 205. His self-denial and consequent debility, 205. 206. His "Lettres Provinciales" condemned by the parliament of Provence, 207. His communications on his death-bed, 208. His death at thirty-nine years of age, 210. Consideration of his virtues and piety, 210. His "Pensées," 211. His argument against atheism, 211. His genius, 339. Fénélon's opinion of, 362. His "Pensées" arranged and attacked by Condorcet, II. 177. Pascal, Etienne, indebted to his children's talent for his recal from exile, I. 190. Made intendant at Rouen, 190. His decease, 196. Pascal, Jacqueline, I. 189. 195. 196. Particulars relative to her death when sub-prioress of the convent of Port Royal, 207. Paul III., pope, I. 28. Rabelais requests his holiness to excommunicate him, 29. Pelisson, the abbé, epigram on, I. 175. Pelletier, poetry of, I. 265. Père la Chaise, cemetery of, Molière's cenotaph, I. 148. Perefixe, bishop of Rhodes, I. 120. 147. Perier, madame (Gilberte Pascal), I. 190. 197. Alleged miraculous cure of her daughter, a nun, at Port Royal, 202. Her life of her brother, Blaise Pascal, 202, n. She blames him for the moroseness of his seclusion and rules of life, 203. Perrault, Charles, his "Siècle de Louis XIV.," I. 287. Boileau directs his satire against him, 287. his "Mother Goose's Tales," 287, n. Perrin, translator of the "Æneid," I. 265. Pintrel, translator of Seneca's Epistles, I. 152. Piron, ridiculed by Voltaire, II. 45. 50. Plato, studied by La Fontaine, I. 155. "Plutarch's Lives," I. 155. Poggius, the "Facetiæ" of, I. 35. Poison, when innocent, 29. 30. "Polyeucte," tragedy, I. 50. Pompadour, madame de, II. 55. 57. Pomponius Lætus, I. 37.