« La plus universelle et commune erreur des hommes » Philautie et/ou présomption dans les Essais

This article highlights the sources and core characteristics of Montaigne's notion of presumption. Montaigne is always rereading and rewriting the Essais with the ironic consciousness of this vice as a universal error, especially after 1588. Irony also enables Montaigne to accept this facet of himself which, in a view more ethical that moral, he renames vanity.