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Françoise Gilberte Périer (1 January 1620 in Clermont-Ferrand – 25 April 1687 in Paris) was a French biographer and the older sister of Blaise Pascal whose biography she wrote.
Françoise Gilberte Périer, née Pascal à Clermont-Ferrand le 1 er janvier 1620 et morte à Paris le 25 avril 1687, est une personnalité française, connue pour ses écrits sur son frère le scientifique et philosophe Blaise Pascal [1].
The Other Pascals: The Philosophy of Jacqueline Pascal, Gilberte Pascal Périer, and Marguerite Périer. John J. Conley SJ. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. xiv + 264 pp. $55. | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core.
The last of the family’s children, Jacqueline had Gilberte Pascal Périer (1620-1687) and Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) for siblings. With the death of his wife shortly after Jacqueline’s birth, Étienne Pascal began to educate his children at home.
Gilberte Pascal Périer wrote the first philosophical biographies of Blaise and Jacqueline. Marguerite Périer defended freedom of conscience against coercion by political and religious superiors.
- S.J. John J. Conley
- 2019
Gilberte Périer is the author of Pensées (3.95 avg rating, 13371 ratings, 671 reviews, published 1670), La vie de monsieur Pascal/La vie de Jacqueline Pa...
Abstract. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French scientist, mathematician, and religious thinker. La Vie de Monsieur Pascal, a memoir of his life written by his sister Gilberte Perier, has served as the primary source for most other biographies. It survives in two versions.
