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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 ...
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Montaigne published the first two volumes of his Essais in 1580, printed by Simon Millanges [] in Bordeaux. [4] The books' success (1582 - a re-edition published in Bordeaux; [5] a possible re-edition published in Rouen before 1584 [6] and in 1587 a re-edition published in Paris [7]) attracted the interest of the Paris publisher Abel L'Angelier [], who, in 1588, published a new modified and ...
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