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According to a17th century account, Blaise Pascal, scientific genius and fundamentalist Roman Catholic philosopher, was in the constant company of a certain young woman, who, because of her liveliness, fine sensibility, wisdom, and beauty, was known as the ‘Sapho of the district’. This is fact, but is it all that we know of her? Was she also Pascal’s longtime friend and lover? We can surmise that she was a provincial, spending her life in the Auvergne, but it is through the prism of her more modern and freethinking lens that this novel sees its hero. It is in contrast to her voluptuousness, her down-to-earth practicality, her religious detachment, and her tolerance of ambiguities that we view Pascal’s intellectual anguish and flirtation with fundamentalism.
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