BLAISE PASCAL. — “The death mask of the greatest of French philosophers and mathematicians is kept in the library of the Societe des Amis dc Port-Royal, rue St. Jacques, Paris. The cast shown in our illustration is in the Bibliotheque St. Genevieve. The death mask served as a model for a portrait by the painter Quesnel. Pascal was born on June 19, 1623, at Clermont-Ferrand, and died on August 19, 1662, in Paris. Photograph by Giraudon, Paris.”
Black & White Photos and quotations from: Benkard, Ernst, & Green, Margaret (1927). Undying Faces, A Collection of Death Masks. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.