Descartes lecteur de Montaigne ? Quelques remarques sur l’usage de l’exemple de la jaunisse chez Montaigne et Descartes

The thesis recently appeared that Descartes would not have read the Essais. This paper compares the use of the example of the jaundice common to Montaigne and Descartes, and tries to see if Descartes, without reading Montaigne, could have a common source, or a previous source having fed Montaigne’s quotations, or if we can support that Montaigne has almost certainly read Montaigne to explain that they use the same example in the same purpose to support a criticism of our sensitive knowledge.