[6a]  Gilberte Pascal—Madame Périer—says, in her life of her brother, 1626.  Marguerite Périer, her daughter, Pascal’s niece, says 1628.  Cousin (B. Pascal), App. I. 315.  Faugère, Lettres, Opuscules, etc., p. 419.

[6b]  Cousin, Jacqueline Pascal, p. 23.

Memoir by Marguerite Périer, her daughter, quoted by Cousin, ibid., p. 24.  “Do not think,” adds Cousin, “that this portrait is embellished: the austere Marguerite flatters no one; and if she, a Jansenist, says that her mother was beautiful, we may be sure that she was very much so.”

“The exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the two interior and opposite angles; and the three interior angles are together equal to two right angles.”

Baillet, Vie de Descartes, liv. V. c. v. p. 39.

Cousin, Jacqueline Pascal, pp. 72–75.

The Intendant was a special Royal Commissioner, sent into the provinces to watch over the administration of justice and the finances.

See Cousin, Jacqueline Pascal, pp. 78–80.