From Confessions to Essays From popular emotions to the call of the divine

This article seeks to emphasize certain points of convergence so far little seen between the Confessions and the Essays. Montaigne, reader of Augustine, draws from the theologian material to fight against passions by denouncing them, especially in a context of collective outbursts and destruction. A call to conversion for the first, a call to the divine alone capable of tempering passions for the second, it is on these essential points that the two works come together.