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France blocks auction of one of the world's first calculating machines
2025-11-20 19:20:08 / MISTERE&KURIOZITETE
One of the world's first calculating machines, the Pascaline, invented by mathematician and thinker Blaise Pascal, will not go up for auction as planned after a Paris court temporarily banned its export.
Christie's has confirmed that it will not auction the Pascaline, which Pascal built in 1642.
Estimates, as reported by the BBC, indicated that the car could sell for between 2 and 3 million euros.
For Christie's, it was "the most important scientific instrument ever offered at auction."
Scientists and researchers appealed to the Court to consider the car an object of cultural heritage and classify it as a "national treasure".
Pascal was only 19 years old when he invented the first version of a computer, according to Christie's.
Only nine of these cars still exist.
The car was included in Christie's auction for the library of the late Catalan collector Leon Parsé, which also included Pascal's philosophical work "Pensées" ("Thoughts") and the first printed edition of "Pascal's Wager" on the existence of God.
Christie's has confirmed that it will not auction the Pascaline, which Pascal built in 1642.
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