Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume I by Michel de Montaigne
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"Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume I" by Michel de Montaigne is a collection of essays written between approximately 1570 and 1592. Montaigne set out to record his own character and humours with complete frankness, creating a new literary form that examines topics ranging from conscience and sorrow to smells and letters. Writing during France's religious wars, he embraced philosophical skepticism, questioning human certainty and reason. His conversational style blends learned quotations
with everyday language, creating introspective explorations that accidentally revealed profound insights into human nature itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Michaud |
| Title | Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume I |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Montaigne) |
| Credits | Produced by Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 64.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French essays |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 48529 |
| Release Date | Mar 19, 2015 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1669 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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