Blaise Pascal, Entretien avec Monsieur de Sacy

Elena Ciocoiu (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Allison Stedman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Kathrina LaPorta, New York University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.03: French Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century: Classical and Baroque, 1600-1700.
Vol. editors: Heather Kirk (University of Western Ontario), Kathrina LaPorta (New York University), Polly Mangerson (DePaul University), Julia Prest (University of St Andrews), Allison Stedman (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1655 - 1655

Places

France (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Essay / Lecture (literary)

Resources

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 Pensées de M. Pascal, extraites du Manuscrit de M. l’abb&e…

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Citation: Ciocoiu, Elena. "Entretien avec Monsieur de Sacy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 December 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35717, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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