André Comte-Sponville: "Montaigne tells us: 'You don't die because you are sick, you die because you are alive" "

THE FIGARO MAGAZINE.

- Montaigne, is it France?

André COMTE-SPONVILLE.

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André Gide, who knew a

literature, considered Montaigne to be

I would say:

the other being Victor Hugo.

That says enough the level where it is located.

Above all, Gide added that Montaigne was the equivalent for our country of Shakespeare for England, of Dante for Italy, of Cervantes for Spain, of Goethe for Germany, and this is very true.

It is the common core of all our literature.

Then he's not just a genius writer;

he is also an excellent philosopher,

as we said.

As such, it is the hub of French culture, where our modernity is invented.

Finally, he is not only a genius: he is a formidably endearing man, whom one cannot read without having the feeling of meeting a friend.

We have often drawn a parallel between

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