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The Essais — Montaigne’s work, published in 1580 and enlarged until the posthumous edition of 1595
The first book to bear that title: a meditation on the human condition, drawn from reading and experience, which its author enlarged until his death. Two books in 1580, a third and six hundred additions in 1588, a posthumous edition in 1595 — and the copy annotated in his own hand, kept at Bordeaux, which shows how he worked. (Editorial synthesis)
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