- Pierre Villey, Les Sources et l‘évolution des Essais de Montaigne (Paris 1933 ed.) I, 352–353.
- Montaigne, Essais (Paris 1922–1923 ed. Villey), (Book and Volume) I, (chapter) xiv, (page) 69(A); cf. pp. 59(A), 65(A), and passim. All references to the Essais thruout this article will be to this edition and in this form. The letters following the page numbers show whether the passage first appeared in print in 1580 (A), 1588 (B), or posthumously in 1595 (C).
- Essais, I, xiv, 81–82(C).
- Ibid. 68–69(C).
- Ibid., II, xii, 220(A). Cf. II, viii, 74(A).
- Ibid., II, xxxvii, 574–578(A).
- Ibid., I, xiv, 65(A).
- Ibid., II, ii, 21(A): “Tant sage qu'il voudra, mais en fin c'est un homme: qu'est il plus caduque, plus miserable et plus de neant? La sagesse ne force pas nos conditions naturelles…”
- Ibid.
- Ibid., II, iii, 29–31 (A).
- Ibid.,II, xi, 126–129(A): “De la cruauté.”
- Ibid., II, xii, 204(A).
- Ibid. 314–315(A).
- Ibid. 340(A).
- Ibid. 349(A).
- Ibid. 360–361(A).
- Ibid. 365(A).
- Ibid. 367(A).
- Ibid., II, xvii, 419(A).
- Ibid. 412–413(A).
- Ibid., II, xx, 463(A)
- Ibid., II, xxxvii, 577–579(A).
- Ibid., II, xii, 365(A).
- Ibid., III, xiii, 447(C). The other references in this paragraph are to II, xxxi, 521(B); III, iv, 61–65, 69(B); v, 76(B), 80(B); x, 317(B); xi, 330(B); xii, 343(B); xiii, 391–396(B), 414(B), 443–444(B), 446(B), 449(B-C). 25 Ibid., III, xiii, 413–414(B). 26. I, l, 384–385(C).
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