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Chapter 7 - Bernard de Girard Du Haillan and Michel de Montaigne on Thinking Through the Public Good in a Time of Civil Discord

from Part II - Plutarch in Renaissance France and England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2022

Rebecca Kingston
Rebecca Kingston
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University of Toronto
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Summary

Chapter 7 examines a Plutarch translation entitled Recueil d’avis et conseils sur les affaires d’estat tire des vies de Plutarque by Du Haillan (c. 1535–1610) and strands of Montaigne’s (1533–1592) political thought related to his conception of the public sphere as developed in The Essays. I also briefly examine the translations of Plutarch effected by Montaigne’s close friend Etienne de la Boétie.

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TacituspolitiquesDu HaillanMontaigneThe EssaysEtienne PasquierEtienne de La BoétieWars of Religion in France
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Plutarch's Prism
Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800
 , pp. 261 - 290
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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