Blaise Pascal, Entretien avec Monsieur de Sacy

Elena Ciocoiu (Independent Scholar - Europe)
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Like the three

Discours sur la Condition des Grands

[

Discourses on the Condition of the Great

], the

Entretien avec Monsieur de Sacy sur Épictète et Montaigne

[

Conversation with M. de Sacy on Epictetus and Montaigne

] was not written directly by Blaise Pascal. Nicolas Fontaine included the

Entretien

in his

Mémoires ou histoire des Solitaires de Port-Royal

[

Memoirs or history of the Solitaires of Port-Royal

], written between 1696 and 1700. In 1728, Pierre Nicolas Desmolets published, for the first time, the

Entretien

in the volume

Œuvres posthumes ou Suite des Penséesde M. Pascal, extraites du Manuscrit de M. l’abbé Périer, son neveu

, without mentioning the origin of the text.

In his memoirs, Nicolas Fontaine, who was a Solitaire and Sacy’s secretary at Port-Royal-des-Champs,

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Citation: Ciocoiu, Elena. "Entretien avec Monsieur de Sacy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 December 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35717, accessed 28 March 2024.]

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