Gilberte Périer (1620–1687)
Auteur de Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres suiets, Qui ont esté trovées après sa mort parmy ses papiers. .--[1ªed.]
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Les Provinciales, ou Lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis, et aux RR. PP. jésuites,… — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Pascal-Périer, Gilberte
Périer, Madame
Pascal, Gilberte - Date de naissance
- 1620
- Date de décès
- 1687-04-25
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- France
- Lieu de naissance
- Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Lieu du décès
- Paris, France
- Lieux de résidence
- Paris, France
Rouen, France
Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France - Études
- at home
- Professions
- biographer
editor - Relations
- Pascal, Jacqueline (sister)
Pascal, Blaise (brother)
Périer, Marguerite (daughter) - Courte biographie
- Gilberte Pascal Périer was born in Clermont-Ferrand in the French province of Auvergne to a distinguished family. Her father Étienne Pascal, a lawyer, served as president of the Cour des Aides, a provincial tax court. Her mother Antoinette Begon, who died in 1626, came from a family of French diplomats and judges. Her younger siblings were Blaise Pascal and Jacqueline Pascal. Their father educated his children at home, stressing mathematics and philosophy as well as literature and history. In 1631, the family moved to Paris, where Gilberte began running the household at age 15. In 1641, she married Florin Périer, a councillor of the Cour des Aides, with whom she had at least four children, including Marguerite Périer, who became a memoirist. During a visit to her father and siblings living in Rouen in 1646, she converted to the controversial Jansenist movement. In 1648, her husband conducted one of the most famous experiments of the Scientific Revolution, taking barometric readings on the Puy-de-Dôme, the highest mountain in the Auvergne, on behalf of Blaise Pascal, who was ill. She frequented intellectual gatherings and was known for her eloquent conversation. She wrote a biography of Blaise called La Vie de Monsieur Pascal, and of her sister Jacqueline Pascal, Vie de la Soeur Saint-Eustache. She assisted in the posthumous publication of her brother's most influential work, Pensées (1670).
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- Popularité
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- ISBN
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