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JACQUELINE PASCAL (1625-T661)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 881 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JACQUELINE

PASCAL (1625-T661)  ,
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sister of Bla,ise Pascal, was born at Clermont-Ferrand, France, on the 4th of
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October 1625 . She was a genuine infant
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prodigy, composing verses when only eight years, and a five-act
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comedy at eleven . In 1646 the influence of her
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brother converted her to
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Jansenism . In 1652, she took the veil, despite the strong opposition of her brother, and subsequently was largely instrumental in the latter's own final conversion . She vehemently opposed the attempt to compel the assent of the nuns to the Papal bulls condemning Jansenism, but was at last compelled to yield her own . This blow, however, hastened her
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death, which occurred at Paris on the 4th of October 1661 .

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