Michel de Montaigne, renowned as an author and philosophe, was a proponent of humanism and an opponent of tyranny. His writing style has been described as "the dialogue of the mind with itself." This program presents Montaigne and the world that he encountered and described in his three-volume work Essaies. An excellent resource for both students of literature and French history and culture. In French. (14 minutes)

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