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Leighton Library has 1636 edition of "Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne" by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Added at 07:09 on 13 September 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1636 edition of "Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne" (said to contain some of the most influential essays ever written) by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance) who died #OnThisDay 13 September 1592. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre as well as being noted for merging casual anecdotes, autobiography & intellectual insight
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