After the brilliant Provincial campaign, Pascal would have planned to compose an Apology for the Christian religion. When he died, his loved ones undertook to reconstruct this work from the scattered fragments found in his papers: this is how the Pensées were born. Neither a metaphysical treatise, nor mystical autobiography, nor even just an apology for the Christian religion, the Thoughts describe man in his greatness and his misery, lay the foundations of politics and morality, probe the meaning of life and exhort hearts to turn to God. Through the author's dazzling style, the force of his reflection and his ardor to persuade, they constitute one of the most fascinating works of French literature. As Chateaubriand wrote, “Pascal’s feelings are remarkable above all for the depth of their sadness, and for I don’t know what immensity: we are suspended in the middle of these feelings as if in infinity.”