VISIT OF A YOUNG LIBERTINE TO BLAISE PASCAL

During the reign of the Sun King, a mysterious Spanish aristocrat, curious about all things, visits the mathematician, scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal. The great genius lives in a poor retirement; but his treasure is more valuable than all the goods in the world... In the press “An astonishing introductory book to philosophy, for everyone. " Life The author: Born in Dunkirk, quai des Quatre-Écluses, Claude-Henri Rocquet lives most often in Paris and sometimes in the Vaucluse. He has published poems, stories and essays, plays, and it is as a playwright that he composed this Visit. Pascal, among the philosophers, has always been essential to him. The illustrator: Sylvestre Bouquet spent his childhood in Essonne, in Palaiseau, where the Bout Galeux festival is held every year. There, in front of the contest of Savoyard lumberjacks, he received his first aesthetic shock. Since then, he has carved amusing or terrible sketches in wood. 64p. - 14 x 21cm