"Pantagruel," by Rabelais, I. 31.
32. 34. Editions of, 38. Pantagruelian
caricatures, wood-cuts,
38. "Pantagrueline Prognostication,
the," I. 37.
Panurge, portraiture by Rabelais, I.
32. 35. 38.
Paris, day of the barricades, I. 68.
Blockade of, 70. 217. The troops
of the capital despised, 71. Riot
and licentiousness, 71. The prince
of Condé defeated by Turenne
under the walls of, 81. Paris not
favourable to stage representations
during the civil war, 102.
Parisian society ridiculed by Molière
in his plays, 107. Parisian
society in the time of Voltaire, II.
6. _et seq._ Reception of Voltaire
at Paris in 1788, 102. Paris during
the Revolution, see vol. II., lives
of Mirabeau, &c.
Pascal, Blaise, exalted character of,
I. 183. His family noble, 184. His
parents, 184. Education as proposed
by his father Etienne, 185.
His companions, men of science,
136. His untutored exertions in
mathematics, 187. His father's
delight on discovering his studies,
187. Reads Euclid by himself,
188. Writes on conic sections,
188. His sisters, 188. Jacqueline
Pascal assists in obtaining their
father's recal by Richelieu, 189.
He studies languages and metaphysics,
190. Chronical ill-health
the result of excessive application,
190. His arithmetical
computator, 190. His investigation
of the properties of atmospheric
air, 191. "On the Equilibrium
of Liquids," 194. "On
the Weight of the Atmosphere."
194. His early piety, 195. His
loss of health, 195. And of his
father, 196. An accident in a
coach influences his mind, 196.
His seclusion from worldly intercourse,
197. His visits to Port
Royal, 198. "Lettres Provinciales"
by, 199. Success of Pascal,
201. Reputation of his work
among the learned for style and
eloquence, 202. His adherence
to rules of privation, &c. causes
chronical maladies, 204. His solution
of the problem of the cycloid,
and other questions in
geometry, 204. His challenge to
furnish a solution of these problems
accepted by Wallis and
Huygens, &c., 205. Pascal's triumph
therein, 205. His self-denial
and consequent debility,
205. 206. His "Lettres Provinciales"
condemned by the parliament
of Provence, 207. His
communications on his death-bed,
208. His death at thirty-nine
years of age, 210. Consideration
of his virtues and piety,
210. His "Pensées," 211. His argument
against atheism, 211. His
genius, 339. Fénélon's opinion of,
362. His "Pensées" arranged
and attacked by Condorcet, II. 177.
Pascal, Etienne, indebted to his
children's talent for his recal from
exile, I. 190. Made intendant at
Rouen, 190. His decease, 196.
Pascal, Jacqueline, I. 189. 195. 196.
Particulars relative to her death
when sub-prioress of the convent
of Port Royal, 207.
Paul III., pope, I. 28. Rabelais
requests his holiness to excommunicate
him, 29.
Pelisson, the abbé, epigram on,
I. 175.
Pelletier, poetry of, I. 265.
Père la Chaise, cemetery of, Molière's
cenotaph, I. 148.
Perefixe, bishop of Rhodes, I. 120.
147.
Perier, madame (Gilberte Pascal),
I. 190. 197. Alleged miraculous
cure of her daughter, a nun, at
Port Royal, 202. Her life of her
brother, Blaise Pascal, 202, n. She
blames him for the moroseness
of his seclusion and rules of life,
203.
Perrault, Charles, his "Siècle de
Louis XIV.," I. 287. Boileau
directs his satire against him,
287. his "Mother Goose's Tales,"
287, n.
Perrin, translator of the "Æneid,"
I. 265.
Pintrel, translator of Seneca's Epistles,
I. 152.
Piron, ridiculed by Voltaire, II. 45.
50.
Plato, studied by La Fontaine, I. 155.
"Plutarch's Lives," I. 155.
Poggius, the "Facetiæ" of, I. 35.
Poison, when innocent, 29. 30.
"Polyeucte," tragedy, I. 50.
Pompadour, madame de, II. 55. 57.
Pomponius Lætus, I. 37.
Pont, madame du, poems addressed
by Corneille to, I. 43.
Pontanus, ridiculed by F. Rabelais
in his romance, I. 37.
Pontverre, M. de, II. 116.
Pope, Alexander, quotation from
his works, I. 179.
Port Royal, abbey of, I. 199. Angelica
Arnaud, abbess, 198.
Learned men who lived in retirement
near this cloister, 199. Controversy
of the abbé Arnaud with
the Sorbonne, 200. Alleged miracle
at, regarding the cure of a
niece of Pascal, 201. Dispersion
of the nuns, 207.
Pradon, satirized by Boileau, I. 266.
His "Phèdre," brought out in
opposition to Racine's tragedy, 312.
Puy Morin, M. de, a brother of
Boileau Despréaux, II. 21.
"Précieuses Ridicules, les," satirical
comedy of Molière, I. 85. A
satire of French manners, affected
language, and of the clique of
l'Hôtel Rambouillet, 107. 110.
"Pucelle d'Orléans" of Chapelain,
I. 262, 263, n.
"Pucelle d'Orléans," of Voltaire,
II. 25. 28. 33.
Puy de Dôme, Pascal's experiment
on atmospheric pressure, on the,
I. 193, 194.