📕 Excerpt from Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne, Vol. 1: Publiés d'Après l'Exemplaire de Bordeaux, Avec les Variantes Manuscrites Et les Leçons des Plus Anciennes Impressions, des Notes, des Notices Et un LexiqueAu commencement de l'année 1571, Michel de Montaigne, qui venait de vendre sa charge de conseiller au Parlement de Bordeaux, se retira dans son château de Montaigne.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.