Word: pascale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jorge Luis Borges, The Fearful Sphere of Pascal...
...Where were you between 7:45 and 8:30 on the night of April 5?" demanded Investigating Magistrate Henri Pascal more than a week later. Like many other townspeople who were questioned after the murder, Leroy could not remember. In fact, his testimony was waffling and contradictory. Acting on his "strong personal conviction," Pascal promptly jailed Leroy on a murder charge...
Despite the less than solid evidence and Leroy's protestations of innocence, Judge Pascal refused to release the notary on bail. Ultra-leftists subsequently formed an action committee to support Pascal's tough stand, contending that the case represented "the people's struggle against the bourgeoisie." As the trial became political, it rapidly outgrew Bruay. Pro-and anti-Leroy rallies were held in many cities of northern France. Even Jean-Paul Sartre got into the act. An article in his far-left newspaper, La Cause du Peuple, quoted Bruay miners, who demanded: "Give [Leroy...
...about the murder, Jean-Pierre suddenly confessed to the murder. When the police refused to accept the confession, he took them to his brother's apartment, where they found a bloody ax and the girl's glasses. The case should have ended there. It has not. Judge Pascal and most of the townspeople are still convinced of Leroy's guilt. Although out of prison, the hapless notary is still formally charged with murder. The charge will stick until the case is finally disposed of by the courts-and that may well take the better part...
...Pope Clement XIV, and the order was disbanded for 41 years. The suppression grew out of a convergence of hatreds. The anticlerical freethinkers of the Enlightenment detested the Jesuits. So did Jansenist Catholics, who adhered to a puritanical view of man's depravity. Their most articulate spokesman was Blaise Pascal, who, in his eloquently satirical Provincial Letters, accused the Jesuits of abetting the decay of Christianity by their lax moral and ascetic teachings. Their papal loyalty, furthermore, infuriated believers in the new nationalism. A magnanimous missionary project in New Spain?the "Paraguay Reductions"?grew into self-sufficient Indian strongholds...