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Clement XI issues Unigenitus against Jansenist propositions after Pascal’s death

On 8 September 1713 the bull Unigenitus condemned 101 propositions associated with Quesnel and the Jansenist current Pascal had defended in the 1650s. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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On 8 September 1713 the bull Unigenitus condemned 101 propositions associated with Quesnel and the Jansenist current Pascal had defended in the 1650s. He did not live to see the bull.

Context

A dead controversialist is not the pope. Complex contribution: his Provinciales remain the vernacular arsenal of a current the bull then crushed.

Blaise Pascal is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

High confidence on 1713.

High confidence on 1713.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Blaise Pascal

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    Mathematician, Jansenist controversialist, and inventor as documented. Printers, Port-Royal, and later metrologists reuse the name.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactClement XI issues Unigenitus against Jansenist propositions after Pascal’s death
    2. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 8 September 1713 · verified

    High confidence on 1713.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — JansenismEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Holy See — Vatican official siteHoly See · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorBlaise Pascal
  2. contributed toFactClement XI issues Unigenitus against Jansenist propositions after Pascal’s death
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Clement XI issues Unigenitus against Jansenist propositions after Pascal’s death. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-unigenitus-1713

https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-unigenitus-1713

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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