Parole ca m etienne pascal biography

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Dates

Born: Clermont-Ferrand, 2 May 1588

Died: Paris, 24 September 1651

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 63

2. Patronage

Types: Government Official, Court Official

Cardinal Richelieu (whom I categorize here as a governmental official) appointed Pascal to his postions as a commissioner in 1634 and as an intendant in 1639.

Governments, however, do not like protests and Étienne Pascal was threatened with imprisonment in the Bastille. The Deschamps brothers, two local bone setters, were called to help and they moved into the Pascal home to look after Étienne. It was a time of revolt by the French peasants and officials loyal to the government, such at Étienne Pascal, were in some danger of assassination.

In the same year he sold his Clermont presidency. G.S. Fraser, (London, 1952). at St. Thomas (Montmagny, Province of Quebec), 5 Sept., 1795, son of Charles, and Geneviève Michon; d. Étienne, who never remarried, decided that he alone would educate his children, for they all showed extraordinary intellectual ability, particularly his son Blaise.

Étienne Pascal served on a scientific committee (whose members included Pierre Hérigone and Claude Mydorge) set up to determine whether Jean-Baptiste Morin's scheme for determining longitude from the Moon's motion was practical.

The Limaçon was first studied and named by Étienne Pascal and so this mathematical curve is often called Pascal's Limaçon.

Notes

In March 1638 he fled from Paris to avoid this punishment and returned to the Auvergne. Étienne was trained in law in Paris, receiving his degree in 1610.

Étienne Pascal (Clermont, May 2, 1588 - Paris, September 24, 1651) was the father of Blaise Pascal.

From 1646-8, Pascal participated in the barometric experiments conducted by his son, P.

Petit, and probably his son-in-law. Perhaps at this stage we should put his life into context by saying a few words about France in this period. I could not be more so without being overwhelmed; for the last four months I have not been in bed six times before two o'clock in the morning. Hard work and great skill on the part of Étienne saw him tackle unrest in the people brought about by bad harvests, high taxes, and an outbreak of the plague.

Among his contacts were Roberval, Desargues, and Mydorge. ... Means of Support

Primary: Government, Personal Means

After completing his degree in law, Pascal returned to Clermont were he bought the post as elected counsellor for Bas-Auvergne. v Shkole(2)(1988), 75-76.

M Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der MathematikII(Leipzig, 1908), 675, 679, 681, 875, 881, 882.

P Tannery, Mémoires ScientifiqueX(Paris, 1930), 372, 382-383, XIII(Paris, 1934), 337-338.

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Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Last Update August 2006

Richelieu was three years older than Étienne Pascal and employed a rather different route to power in France.

B1900.A3B8 vol.1 J. Mesnard, Pascal, his Life and Works, trans. That same year, he returned to Clermont and purchased the post of counsellor for Bas-Auvergne, the area surrounding Clermont.

In 1631, five years after the death of his wife,[2] Étienne Pascal moved with his children to Paris. Certainly Jacqueline must have had great charm, for Cardinal Richelieu did not just do the minimum to please Jacqueline - he appointed Étienne to the post of chief tax officer in Rouen, the capital of Normandy.

Les travaux des historiens modernes… … Encyclopédie Universelle

Étienne Parfait Martin Morel de Mons — Étienne Parfait Martin Maurel de Mons Pour les articles homonymes, voir Maurel, Morel et Mons (homonymie). After the performance, Jacqueline met Cardinal Richelieu and persuaded him to pardon her father for his part in the protests.