Descartes, Chanut le jeune, and the two Oliviers A wink of tribute to Olivier Bloch

This article relates the sensational discovery of an unpublished correspondence of Descartes’s, which sheds light on a little-known reversal in his thinking, caused by his encounter with a cat. Or perhaps a child. This is in homage to the secret inventor and best analyst of these documents: Olivier Bloch. Or perhaps Olivier Bardet.