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How to live, or, A life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
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How to live, or, A life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

by Sarah Bakewell

A biography of the Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, exploring his life through the personal enquiries and philosophical essays he used to examine the human condition amidst the civil wars of sixteenth-century France.

Accession 22564 ISBN 9780099485155 Publisher Vintage Books
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