{45b} These further researches are expounded in two treatises, ‘De l’Équilibre des Liqueurs,’ and ‘De la Pesanteur de l’Air,’ supposed to have been written in 1653, but not published till 1663, after the author’s death. {46a} North British Review, August 1844. Sir David in the main translates from M. Bossut’s “Discours.” {46b} Œuvres, t. iv. p. 187. {50} Faugère, Lettres, etc., p. 80. {51} Vie de Pascal. {54a} Cousin, Vie de Jacqueline, p. 43. {54b} Ibid., p. 101. {55} B. Pascal, app. vii. p. 491. {58} Vie de Jacqueline. {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. {66} Lélut, p. 238. {67a} Pensées, éd. de M. Faugère, t. i p. 197. {67b} Ibid., t. ii p. 91. {67c} Faugère, Introduction. {67d} Blaise Pascal, App. No. 7. {68a} Blaise Pascal, App. No. 7. {68b} Introd. to Ed. of Pensées. {71} Il prit la résolution de suivre le train commun du monde, c’est-à-dire de prendre une charge et se marier.—Faugère, p. 453. {76} “D’horribles attaches”—an expression already alluded to, which has given rise to a good deal of speculation.—Jacqueline Pascal, Cousin, p. 237. {77} Cousin, Jacqueline Pascal, pp. 236–241. {87} Fontaine, vol. i. p. 354. {89} See Beard’s Port Royal, vol. i. pp. 207, 208. {90} Recueil d’Utrecht, quoted by Maynard, vol. i. p. 78. {91}