<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jaime Pasquier, Author]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jaime Pasquier blends ancient wisdom, global history, and human character into narratives that challenge readers to live more fully]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:19:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.jaimepasquier.com/es/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[            Why I Wrote The Virtuous Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ancient Thinkers Lit the Torch: The Architects of Progress  By Jaime Pasquier I didn’t write The Virtuous Life  because I had all the answers. I wrote it because I couldn’t shake a feeling — one I suspect many of you share — that something is quietly going wrong. Not wrong in the obvious, headline-grabbing way. Wrong in a deeper, slower sense. The kind of wrong you sense when you look around at a society that has more wealth, more technology, and more comfort than any civilization in...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/why-i-wrote-the-virtuous-life</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bf27f0cf14a7a450cd8b2f</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:19:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_1bd8937f1d804a77b4a3cc77dbfb40eb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_816,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I'm Giving Away 100 Copies of My Book The Virtuous Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[A message from the author This month, I’m giving away 100 Kindle copies of The Virtuous Life: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living  through a Goodreads Giveaway — completely free. I’m doing it for a simple reason: ideas only matter when they reach the people who need them. Philosophy has always lived in conversation, not isolation. Socrates walked into the marketplace. The Stoics gathered students in public squares. The great traditions were meant to be practiced, not merely admired. That spirit...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/why-i-m-giving-away-100-copies-of-the-virtuous-life-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a3cbaf177696dbd354e889</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:50:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_e41e981dbaae46ecaa947ebe43982a4c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_816,h_978,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Can't Become a Good Person Alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's a sentence that should trouble us: America is the most connected society in human history, and one of the loneliest. We have more ways to communicate than any people who have ever lived. We can reach anyone, anywhere, instantly. And yet loneliness has become a public health crisis — with effects on physical health comparable, according to researchers, to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. Something has gone badly wrong. And it's not a technology problem. It's a community problem....]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/you-can-t-become-a-good-person-alone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a2722e3a2716aeb218ca22</guid><category><![CDATA[The Virtuous Life]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:59:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_5348f5799d1e4bc4b5192c4624426f94~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_640,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Choices Than Ever. Less Free Than We've Ever Felt.]]></title><description><![CDATA[ANCIENT WISDOM FOR MODERN LIFE The strange tyranny of unlimited options Imagine standing in a supermarket aisle with four hundred varieties of breakfast cereal, unable to choose any of them. Psychologists call this "the paradox of choice." More options don't lead to better decisions — they lead to paralysis, anxiety, and a nagging sense that whatever you picked, something better was probably on the shelf next to it. Now scale that up to your entire life. Career options are nearly unlimited....]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/the-stoics-weren-t-grim-they-were-free</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a1080c9d34acb7c43314f5</guid><category><![CDATA[The Virtuous Life]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:17:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_7bbf73702d654204984e5fe1e30a69a0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Don't Have a Politics Problem. We Have a Values Problem.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why Moral Vertigo is Making Everything Harder By Jaime Pasquier · Author of The Virtuous Life: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living The Silence on Values Here's something worth noticing: people will argue passionately about politics. Yet, they go completely quiet the moment anyone raises a question about values. How should I live? What actually matters? Is there a difference between a good life and a successful one? These are the oldest and most important questions human beings have ever asked....]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/virtue-isn-t-what-you-think-it-is-and-why-that-matters</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6997db784c11d313e899e09d</guid><category><![CDATA[The Virtuous Life]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:19:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_714e335813744dc2a8838a82d5f625b3~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_640,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[                    You've Won the Game. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The paradox at the heart of modern success — and the ancient idea that explains it. By Jaime Pasquier  ·  Author of The Virtuous Life: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living   Imagine the life you were told to want. Good income. Career traction. A home, a partner, maybe kids. Vacations you actually take. By any reasonable measure, you have arrived. And yet — quietly, persistently — something feels off. Not crisis-level off. Just… hollow. Like you’ve been running a race and crossed the finish line,...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/you-ve-won-the-game</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6997cba34c11d313e899bfb9</guid><category><![CDATA[The Virtuous Life]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:59:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_9a31aa4523464ea2a02f79575f79d642~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_736,h_596,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[             When the Archive Speaks Your Name]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Family History Behind the Novel What makes this research particularly compelling is that it does not rest on a single family’s claim. The Pasquier family in Nicaragua traces its lineage to Fermín Pasquier, who arrived in the months after the murder. The Praslin family—still present in Nicaragua today—traces its origins to the same period. These families developed independently, in different regions of the country, with no coordinated mythology. Yet both maintained oral traditions about...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/when-the-archive-speaks-your</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69912a86f0131a3b550bca9d</guid><category><![CDATA[Scandal Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 02:22:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_9cbb624a88f94101b9f9627b8c15b14c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Story My Family Carried: A Journey Through Archives, Memory, and Mystery]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I began tracing my family tree fifteen years ago, I expected the usual mix of farmers and merchants, perhaps a minor scandal or two buried in parish records. I did not expect to find a murderer—or the conspiracy that helped him disappear. The story begins in Paris on the morning of August 18, 1847. The Duchess of Choiseul-Praslin was found dead in her bedroom at the family’s mansion on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Forty-seven stab wounds marked her body. Her husband, Duke Charles de...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/forty-seven-stab-wounds-and-a-vanishing-duke</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6991198c9f4f0b75dfff34bd</guid><category><![CDATA[Scandal Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:22:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_f7c1ebfb8b0f437e9b7ce1f1b94f0548~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_977,h_751,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How One Scandal Brought Down a King]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an opulent setting, a regal couple stands poised, epitomizing French royalty in 1820, reflecting a marriage of convenience through their elaborate attire and formal demeanor. The summer of 1847 in Paris was oppressively hot, but the heat that truly suffocated came from within—from drawing rooms thick with secrets, from palace corridors where whispers echoed louder than proclamations, from a monarchy that had confused longevity with legitimacy. King Louis-Philippe's July Monarchy had...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/how-one-scandal-brought-down-a-king</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6968188d6ae8988b73fba41f</guid><category><![CDATA[Scandal Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:13:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_c70c5a99452d42518fb0edf70f336a60~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[        The Sentence No One Could Escape  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Murder, Privilege, and the Impossibility of Redemption in the Praslin Affair By Jaime Pasquier On the morning of August 18, 1847, servants discovered the Duchesse de Choiseul-Praslin dead in her locked bedroom at the family’s Parisian mansion. Forty-seven stab wounds. Her throat slashed. Blood on every surface. Her husband—a duke whose lineage reached back to the Crusades—was the only suspect, his robe soaked in her blood, her hair clenched in her dead hands. Six days later, Charles de...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/justice-class-and-the-limits-of-redemption</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696820f30ef3e0e1c07f8061</guid><category><![CDATA[Scandal Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:53:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_5750a7bf122144fca2008d252137ada5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Stories, One Murder: The Praslin Affair Through Opposing Lenses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henriette Deluzy-Desportes (Bette Davis) serves as the governess to the children of the Duc de Praslin (Charles Boyer) and his wife, the duchess (Barbara O'Neil). While both the Duc de Praslin and his children adore Henriette, the duchess despises her, and is suspicious of the bond she has formed with her family. As the duchess's behavior toward Henriette grows more and more irrational, it puts into play tragic events that will change all their lives forever. In 1938, Rachel Field published...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/two-stories-one-murder-the-praslin-affair-through-opposing-lenses</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69757c6dd43586da50c3676d</guid><category><![CDATA[Scandal Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:22:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_29ee21b8ff3d40cda204c27cf48e418f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_256,h_389,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[             El cruce de múltiples mundos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Un mapa fantástico que representa la convergencia de diversos mundos míticos, con continentes ilustrados con gran detalle y símbolos enigmáticos que sugieren reinos interconectados. Hay una geografía peculiar de la culpa. No respeta fronteras ni océanos. Puedes navegar de Le Havre a Nueva York, de Nueva York a San Juan del Norte, subir el Río San Juan a través de una selva lo suficientemente espesa como para tragarse la luz del sol, cruzar el Lago de Nicaragua hasta las calles coloniales de...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/es/post/el-cruce-de-m%C3%BAltiples-mundos</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6968230cbbaf501a67d97e73</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:01:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_b10c70d6effb4134821362e575d88b6f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cuando la violencia privada se convierte en crisis pública: el asesinato de Praslin y la caída de un reino.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Una escena dramática que captura el tumulto y el caos de la caída de una dinastía, con una figura alzando una bandera roja entre llamas y facciones enfrentadas, simbolizando la intensa lucha por el poder y el cambio. En la mañana del 18 de agosto de 1847, los sirvientes en el Hôtel Sebastiani en la elegante rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré de París escucharon una campana sonando desesperadamente a las cuatro y media. Cuando finalmente lograron atravesar la puerta cerrada con llave del dormitorio...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/es/post/cuando-la-violencia-privada-se-convierte-en-crisis-p%C3%BAblica-el-asesinato-de-praslin-y-la-ca%C3%ADda-de-un</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696adbb37b0da5c6df9bdaf9</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:50:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_69f09c96150046caa25e51366640c77f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Descubriendo las profundidades de la historia: los temas y el valor de la ficción histórica de Jaime Pasquier.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comprendiendo la visión literaria de Jaime. Jaime Pasquier es un autor publicado de ficción histórica cuyas obras, CUARENTA Y SIETE PUÑALADAS y su contraparte en inglés The Scandal That Shook the Throne, ofrecen a los lectores un viaje extraordinario hacia uno de los momentos más explosivos de la Francia del siglo XIX. Estas no son simplemente novelas históricas—son narrativas profundamente investigadas extraídas de archivos familiares, donde la tragedia privada y el escándalo público...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/es/post/descubriendo-las-profundidades-de-la-historia-los-temas-y-el-valor-de-la-ficci%C3%B3n-hist%C3%B3rica-de-jaime</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696ad7f864325a81cd800f8f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:43:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_5b65d0b4d59d41eb96718ed5dc90127b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Praslin Murder and the Fall of a Kingdom]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a Bedroom Murder Became a Revolution’s Spark By Jaime Pasquier At half past four on the morning of August 18, 1847, a bell rang desperately through the Hôtel Sebastiani on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. When servants finally broke through the locked bedroom door of the Duchesse de Choiseul-Praslin, they found a scene that would sear itself into France’s collective memory: forty-seven stab wounds, a throat slashed to the bone, blood on every wall, overturned furniture marking the path...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/when-private-violence-becomes-public-crisis-the-praslin-murder-and-the-fall-of-a-kingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6968132c0d9b34c9e292c230</guid><category><![CDATA[Scandal Blog]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:24:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_f8909a1b2a124f4ea4abb649ff51158e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovering the Depths of History: The Themes and Value of Jaime Pasquier's Historical Fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understanding Jaime's Literary Vision Jaime Pasquier is a published historical fiction author whose works, CUARENTA Y SIETE PUÑALADAS (Forty-Seven Stab Wounds) and its English counterpart The Scandal That Shook the Throne, offer readers an extraordinary journey into one of 19th-century France's most explosive moments. These aren't simply historical novels—they are deeply researched narratives drawn from family archives, where private tragedy and public scandal collide with devastating...]]></description><link>https://www.jaimepasquier.com/post/discovering-the-depths-of-history-the-themes-and-value-of-jaime-pasquier-s-historical-fiction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69680a08801fea0f88099c50</guid><category><![CDATA[Scandal Blog]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:54:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/498aac_5b65d0b4d59d41eb96718ed5dc90127b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaime Pasquier</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>