"Letters to the Provincial" (165657.) ), one of the brightest works of French literature, exactly a century was practically inaccessible to the Russian-speaking reader Encyclopedia of 17th Century Culture , An important piece of controversy between the Jesuits and the Jansenists over the interpretation of Christian morality brilliant expression of theological problems by means of secular literature - these are few of the definitions of the book Blaise Pascal was one of those polemicists. Montaigne and Voltaire . Complemented by Nicolas's classical notes and modern commentaries, the publication becomes an important source for understanding the European historical and philosophical process of the last three centuries.