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Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal Precedees d'Une Notice sur l'Auteur: Les Provinciales. Lettres; Pensees. with Eloge de Blaise Pascal Discours Presente en 1813 au Concours de l'Academie des Jeux Floraux
18302305836Paris: Armand-Aubree 1830. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Boards lightly rubbed lightly foxed throughout. 1830 Full-Leather. xxiii 424; 416 33 3 pp. 8vo. French text. Full leather gilt and blind stamped decorations gilt titles on morocco spine labels marbled edges and endpapers. A collection of letters by the author of Pensees most notable for their attack on casuistry a common rhetorical method at the time especially among Jesuits who Pascal specifically condemns for their lax morals. These later influenced the writings of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The second volume includes his famous Pensees along with Bordas Demoulin's Eloge. Armand-Aubree hardcover books
