Three reasons to read The Essays of Montaigne. In this work, the French writer addresses themes as eternal and familiar as friendship, identity, and the education of children.
Reading these cheerful and bustling pages, we are sometimes overcome by a burst of medieval laughter, sometimes seized by the depth of a universal meditation. It is because our sensitivity corresponds to that of the 16th century, a period of religious wars, disrupted by the discovery of the New World. A time of crisis that echoes ours, marked by the return of history and skepticism.