Mysteries: remains of a hidden life
Words on paper
In search of a person behind the words
A France of broken families
Families
Politiques
Breaking with his father
Aristocratic Paris
Libertine Paris
A political education
Gearing up for war: mathematical inspirations
Breda
Military engineering
Meeting Isaac Beeckman
The Holy Roman empire
Anxious dreams
Curious meetings
War and diplomacy in Europe
Into Bohemia
To Hungary and disaster
The Baltic and return to the Netherlands
Again in France
Paris and the rosicrucian scare
The Valtellina and Rome
The struggle for France
Problems with the cardinal
The campaign for La Rochelle
Confrontation and departure
The meetings
Confrontation and conversation
Becoming a sectarian
Feeling threatened
Exile
Not yet concluded.