France intervenes to stop auction of 'world's first calculator'

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One of the world’s first calculators, devised in 1642 by the French polymath Blaise Pascal, was pulled from auction — at least for now.
Less than 24 hours before Christie’s was set to sell La Pascaline for an estimated $2-3.5 million, a Paris court revoked its export license, after…

This story appeared on semafor.com, 2025-11-20 22:25:29.
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