Lately, I have enjoyed rereading the interesting essays by Michel de Montaigne. I read the essays for the first time in 1963, and now, as an old man, I still appreciate their insights, skepticism, readability, humanism, range, humor, irony, ideas and opinions, and their relevance for me. Montaigne's writing style is conversational, engaging, and enduring.
I have never visited France. However, I have watched the Tour de France bicycle race each summer on television for the past 15 years. The television coverage is outstanding with beautiful helicopter and ground camera visuals. It is like taking an actual tour of different areas in France every year. This year, the tour started later in the summer, and all the spectators are wearing masks because of the cronovirus pandemic.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592, French Essayist)
How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne; In One Question and Twenty Attempts at
an Answer. By Sarah Bakewell. New York, Other Press, 2010.
Index, bibliography, notes, 399 pages. An outstanding biographical and intellectual history study. VSCL.
The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne. By Charles Cotton. Translated from the Latin into English in 1685. I prefer the Kindle Edition. 1981 pages. 2018. VSCL.
The Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne. Translated by Donald M.
Frame. Everyman's Library, 2003. 1392 pages. Unfortunately, this translation is only available in a heavy hardbound volume with smaller print; with no e-book options. Originally published in 1957. VSCL.
Me, Myself, and I: What made Michel de Montaigne the first modern man? By Jane Kramer.
Virtues and Vices: Notes, Quotes, Sayings, Links, Good Reads. By Mike Garofalo.
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