Descartes: A Biography

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[February], quoted in note, mentions only eight years. The arguments for

the chronology proposed by Rodis-Lewis (:–) seem persuasive. Descartes’

older brother, Pierre, began to attend La Fl`eche only when he was twelve years old

(on the assumption that he began soon after the opening of the college in February

).

.Rochemonteix (), i..

.Ibid., ii.; Gaston-Cherau ( ́ ),–.

.Dainville (),–.

.Fitzpatrick (),,.

.Descartes to Charlet,February(iv.,).

.See Descartes to Father Bourdin,February, where Descartes expressed

the reflected honour of having Father Charlet as a relative: ‘Besides, I am indebted

to him for my education – which he directed for eight years – during my whole

youth when I was at La Fl`eche and where he was rector’ (iv.–).

.Scaglione (),,gives the following mix of pupils in a Bordeaux college in

–:percent sons of bourgeois functionaries,percent sons of merchants,

percent sons of nobles, andpercent sons of peasants.

.Rochemonteix (), i..

.Montaigne (), I, xxvi (p.).

.OnJune, Descartes sent a copy of theDiscourse and Essaysto Father No ̈el,

who by then had become rector of La Fl`eche College.

.A book about the life and spiritual teaching of Father Lallemant was published

in Paris inand reprinted in many subsequent editions. WhenThe Principles

of Philosophywas published in, Descartes asked Father Bourdin to forward

copies of the new book to Fathers Franc ̧ois, Dinet, Charlet, and Vatier, among

others. Descartes to Bourdin, October(iv.–).

.Baillet (), ii..

.Fitzpatrick (),.

.Ari`es (),–.

.Gaston-Ch ́erau ()reports ‘la paume, balles et battoirs’among the games played

byLouis de la Roche-Th ́evenin.

.Fitzpatrick (),.

.Fitzpatrick (),. Richeome () provides an extremely detailed and

extensive summary (almost one thousand pages) of this kind of mariology.

.Ignatius (),.

.Ibid.,,.

.Ibid.,.

.Ibid.,.

.Gaston-Ch ́erau (),.

.See, for example, Pasquier (),, where a Jesuit is credited with the following

conversation: ‘For three years we have failed to kill the Queen of England and

Count Maurice of Nassau. Those were two strikes that unfortunately failed, and

weare prepared to try again, in those cases or elsewhere whenever we think it best

and wherever we have an opportunity.’

.Rochemonteix (), I,.