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

Date: 1713

## The fact

On 8 September 1713 the bull Unigenitus condemned 101 propositions associated with Quesnel and the Jansenist current [Pascal](/people/blaise-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.

## Evidence and sources

Official or museum/library pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Holy See — Vatican portal (https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html; Holy See).

## Significance

A papal condemnation used to crush a current is an institutional-capture path. High confidence on 1713.

A papal condemnation used to crush a current is an institutional-capture path. High confidence on 1713.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is institutional-corruption. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Blaise Pascal: https://factrail.ai/people/blaise-pascal

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jansenism
- https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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