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According to the famous saying of Jean Dagens,
“
the 17th century is the century of Saint Augustine
”.
However, anyone who reads Pascal's
Pensées
can only be surprised at the rarity of explicit references to Augustine: only five fragments of the
Pensées
in Philippe Sellier's edition mention his name in this way.
This is why Vincent Carraud was able to affirm, in an article on "Pascal's anti-Augustinism", that
"
the presence of Saint Augustine in the
Pensées
is neither fundamental nor fundamental
",
even adding that Pascal
"
does not never thought in Augustinian
”.
The observation is identical if we consider other works from the Pascalian corpus.
If the references to Augustine are numerous in
Les Provinciales
– Augustine is mentioned there in eleven of the eighteen
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