NMLP P-041254 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Pensées

Blaise Pascal · Guillaume Desprez, Paris · 1670

Guillaume Desprez's monogram or cipher appears on the title page, with engraved initials and tailpieces; a copper-engraved vignette at the head of the text shows the chapel of the Collège des Quatre-Nations under construction with the motto "Pendent opera interrupta" taken from the Aeneid

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041254 for "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041254, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).