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Donald Frame was a recognized authority on the works of Michel de Montaigne, whose Complete Works he published in translation in 1958. He also studied the works of François Rabelais, and published a book-length study of Gargantua and Pantagruel in 1977. A translation by Frame of Rabelais's complete works was published six months after his death.
As in all of his essays, Montaigne eloquently employed many references and quotes from classical Greek and Roman authors, especially Lucretius. Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked the strong feelings of romantic love as being detrimental to freedom. One of his quotations is: "Marriage is like a cage ...
The Bordeaux copy, feuillet 71v, where Montaigne wrote his famous aphorism : "Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi" As the notes evolve Montaigne's thoughts and ideas are more precise, clearer and more courageous. His biographer, Donald M. Frame, indicates five domains where the re-working of the text is particularly important: [22]
While serving at the Bordeaux Parlement, he became a very close friend of the humanist poet Étienne de La Boétie, whose death in 1563 deeply affected Montaigne. It has been suggested by Donald M. Frame in his introduction to The Complete Essays of Montaigne that because of Montaigne's "imperious need to communicate", after losing Étienne, he ...
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne, translated by Donald M. Frame; Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision, by Roberta Wohlstetter (1962) Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915–1949, by Lucien Bianco; The Many-Splendored Fishes of Hawaii, by Gar Goodson; The Sexual Contract, by Carole Pateman (1988)
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