User:Pensées de Pascal

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." Sir Winston Churchill

I was born, and still live in Île-de-France (the greater Paris area); I am an engineer from the Paris School of Mines (Mines ParisTech) by training, yet I worked most in the car industry. Like so many other Parisians, my family roots are complex; having discovered genealogy at an early age, I am now passionately interested in the dialects and traditions of several of our beautiful French and European regions.

The reference to Pensées de Pascal, the famous book by 17th century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, describes me rather well. Just read the excellent page called Pensées (which I have had no part in writing). I therefore took up the study of a few so-called theological academic disciplines: Greek, Hebrew, historical-critical study the Old and of the New Testaments, ethics, history of the ancient Church, etc…

I contribute to pages related to Protestantism, humanitarian action, art history and history in general. I also look at the pages dealing with technical or economic issues connected with the car industry, or to places where I have stayed - and I sometimes add precisions there as well.

English pages initiated
1. Mohamed Sahnoun (9 January 2014)

2. Robert Whitaker McAll (16 September 2014)

3. Cengiz Aktar (18 September 2014)

4. IIDA Women's Development Organisation (2 March 2015)

5. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior (22 May 2015)

6. Auguste Lecerf (25 June 2015)

7. Irène Laure (5 August 2015)

8. Caux Palace Hotel (31 August 2015)

9. Territet (9 September 2015)

10. Henry Hodgkin (17 December 2015)

11. Martin Wells Knapp (21 January 2016)

12. Philippe Mottu (5 August 2016)

13. Gotthard League (24 August 2016)

14. Clarita von Trott (6 September 2016)

15. Henry Parks Wright (10 October 2016)

16. Jacques Martin (pacifist) (11 January 2017)

17. Henri de Tourville (29 August 2017)

18. Tullio Vinay (7 August 2018)

19. Pomeyrol Community (31 October 2019)

20. Antoine Bernard de Saint-Affrique (30 May 2021)

21. Jerry Pillay (3 August 2022)

English pages reworked in depth

 * Henry Burt Wright (2016)
 * Jacob Adriaan Patijn (2020)
 * Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play: legacy (2017)
 * Réveil (2018)
 * Sherwood Eddy (2019)

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