Word: pascale
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...DAVID PASCAL WRAY...
...PASCAL Geneva, Switzerland...
Jarry. Finally, De Sade can now be considered "an admissible genius like Shakespeare, Pascal or Nietzsche...
...professedly liberal bureaucracy. The conservative tradition of course has no monopoly on dignity and freedom, but that tradition does enjoy a virtual monopoly in intellectually defending those values against secular, plebeian governments. Proudhon and Sorel, French theorists of an older New Left, looked to the great pessimistic conservatives, Pascal and Tocqueville, for inspiration. The American New Left might profit by doing the same...
Above Vinland is a cartographic legend noting that "Eric, legate of the Apostolic See and bishop of Greenland . . . arrived in this truly vast and very rich land . . . in the last year of our most blessed father Pascal, remained a long time in both summer and winter . . ." Since Pope Paschal II died in January 1118, this would presumably fix the time of Eric's arrival at 1117. Taken together with the depiction of Vinland, this indicates that as early as the 12th century, the rest of Europe knew about the Viking voyages. While it is possible that detailed knowledge...