Footnote 43: Perrault, Parallele des Anc. et Mod., Bayle, art. _Pascal_. Footnote 44: D’Artigny, Nouveaux Mémoires iii. p. 34. Footnote 45: Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV., tom. ii. pp. 171, 274. Footnote 46: D’Alembert, Destruct. des Jesuites, p. 54. Footnote 47: Bordas-Demoulin, Eloge de Pascal, p. xxv. (This was the prize essay before the French Academy, in June, 1842.) Footnote 48: Nicole, Hist. des Provinciales. Footnote 49: The names of these unfortunate productions alone survive; 1. “First Reply to Letters, &c., by a Father of the Company of Jesus.” 2. “Provincial Impostures of Sieur de Montalte, Secretary of Port-Royal, discovered and refuted by a Father of the Company of Jesus.” 3. “Reply to a Theologian,” &c. 4. “Reply to the Seventeenth Letter, by Francis Annat,” &c., &c. Footnote 50: Eichhorn, Geschichte der Litteratur, vol. i. pp. 420–423. Footnote 51: Recueil de Port-Royal, pp. 314–323. Some papers passed between Pascal and his friends on this topic. Pascal committed these on his death-bed to his friend M. Domat, “with a request that he would burn them if the nuns of Port-Royal proved firm, and print them if they should yield.” (Ib., p. 322.) The nuns having stood firm, the probability is that they were destroyed. Had they been preserved, they might have thrown some further light on the opinions of Pascal regarding papal authority. Footnote 52: _Si mes Lettres sont condamnées à Rome, ce que j’y condamne, est condamné dans le ciel._ (Pensées de Blaise Pascal, tom. ii. 163. Paris, 1824.) Footnote 53: “How came you,” said the archbishop to M. Beurrier, “to administer the sacraments to such a person? Didn’t you know that he was a Jansenist?” (Recueil, 348.) Footnote 54: Recueil de Port-Royal, pp. 327–330; Petitot, p. 165. Footnote 55: Walchii Biblioth. Theol., ii. 295. Footnote 56: The title of Nicole’s translation, now rarely to be met with, is, _Ludovici Montaltii Litteræ Provinciales, de Morali et Politica Jesuitarum Disciplina. A Willelmo Wendrockio, Salisburgensi Theologo._ Several editions of this translation were printed. I have the first, published at Cologne in 1658, and the fifth, much enlarged, Cologne, 1679. Footnote 57: Avertissement, Les Provinciales, ed. 1767. Mad. de Joncourt, or Joncoux, took a deep interest in the falling fortunes of Port-Royal. (See some account of her in Madame Schimmelpenninck’s History of the Demolition of Port-Royal, p. 135.) Footnote 58: Bayle, Dict., art. _Pascal_. Footnote 59: Daniel, Entretiens, p. 111. Footnote 60: Bayle, Dict., art. _Pascal_, note K. Footnote 61: Abbé de Castres, Les Trois Siècles, ii. 63. Footnote 62: Barbier, Dict. des Ouvrages Anon. et Pseudon. Footnote 63: