Note 7 — Chapter I · PASCAL’S FAMILY AND YOUTH.

Memoir by Marguerite Périer, her daughter, quoted by Cousin, ibid., p. 24. “Do not think,” adds Cousin, “that this portrait is embellished: the austere Marguerite flatters no one; and if she, a Jansenist, says that her mother was beautiful, we may be sure that she was very much so.”