Montaigne's Essays
1580 · Work
'I am myself the matter of my book': Montaigne's Essais, first published at Bordeaux in two books, invent the essay as a form and the candid self-portrait as philosophy.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, France, Master, Renaissance
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