Jacques Rolland was a friend of a philosopher of which ancestry ?
Jacques Rolland Jacques Rolland (14 October 1914, Paris – 11 September 1999) was a French politician. He represented the Radical Party in the National Assembly from 1956 to 1958. Rolland was a friend of Emmanuel Levinas, introduced through a mutual acquaintance, the medievalist Bruno Roy; he wrote an introductory essay to the 1982 publication of Levinas's "De l'évasion", entitled "Getting Out of Being by a New Path".
Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal ( ; ] ; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method.