Preface : living with Blaise / Tom Conley

Early upbringing and arrival in Paris, 1623-41

Rouen and the Pascaline science trials and conceits; the 'first conversion'

Jacqueline Pascal, poet and devout of Port-Royal, 1648-52

Pascal's 'worldly period', 1650-54

The 'second conversion' : the memorial; M de Sacy on Epictetus and Montaigne, 1655-7

The Provinciales and the miracle of the holy thorn

Thinking about thinking : the publication of the Pensées in 1670

Pascal's death, and his remaining still with us.