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The Bookseller’s Gamble: How Montaigne’s Essais Escaped the Censor and Conquered Europe
In the spring of 1580, a Bordeaux magistrate with failing memory and a stone in his kidney handed a Bordeaux printer named Simon Millanges a manuscript unlike anything the trade had seen. It had no clear genre. It was not a treatise, not a memoir, not a collection of sermons or a humanist commentary on…
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