1781 3 Vol Les Essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne Nouvelle Editon

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1781 3 Vol Les Essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne Nouvelle Editon:
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Les Essais de Michel, Seigneur de Montaigne

By Michel de Montaigne

1781 - Amsterdam - Aux Depens de la Compagnie

5\" by 7\", 543; 820; 663pp

DETAILS

A good copy in the original binding of this well regarded edition of the famous essays.

A complete three volume collection of \'Les Essais de Michel, Seigneur de Montaigne\'.

Written by Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 1533 – September 1592), one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written.

Montaigne was the first to use the term “essay” to refer to a short discussion of a topic in prose. In Renaissance France, an essai indicated a “trial” or an “attempt”; the verb essayer meant apprendre, connaître par expérience, éprouver (to learn, to learn from experience, to try out or undergo).

Montaigne covers a wide range of topics, each of which is illustrated with anecdotes, proverbs, sayings and quotations from classical authors in his library. His essays interweave the philosophical and the personal, and each in some way conveys Montaigne’s own experience, often reflecting his desire to know and express the constantly changing self. (University of Viginia)

Includes a frontispiece to Volume I.

Complete in three Volumes.

Nouvelle Edition.

In French.

CONDITION

In gilt full calf bindings.Externally,wornwithsome loss to the top and tail of the spines and the corners of the boards. Internally, firmly bound, bright and generally clean with some spotting to the first and last pages and the odd spot within. An ink inscription has been left to the title page of Volume I.

Overall Condition: GOOD.

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