« Étirer et ployer », encore et toujours

After an analysis of the meaning of the verbs « stretch » and « bend » in the Essays and the language of the sixteenth century – with polarization on the second – we try here to see what operations they can refer to, from the point of view of the functioning of nouns and notions in Montaigne, ranging from the enrichment and the higher energy to the variations of the point of application which they induce for these.