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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 46 words
At the time to which we have come, Montaigne was unknown to the world of letters, except as a translator and editor. In 1569 he had published a translation of the Natural Theology of Raymond de Sebonde, which he had solely undertaken to please his father.
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