Brice Parain (10 March 1897 in Jouarre – 20 March 1971) was a French philosopher and essayist.

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He appeared as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's 1962 film Vivre sa vie.[1]

In Éric Rohmer's film My Night at Maud's (1969), conversations about Pascal's Wager are directly inspired by a similar debate between Parain and Dominique Dubarle in an episode of the television series En profil dans le texte called l'Entretien sur Pascal (The interview on Pascal) in 1965, also produced by Rohmer.[2][3]

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