Abstract: To pay a tribute to A. Legros, to his research, his unique style, is to recognize the importance of his major works: Essais sur poutres, Montaigne manuscript, his research about writing and the Essais’ remorses. But it is also to pay attention to more « vagrant » books: Montaigne aux champs and even more Fricassée, that offer a real pleasure as one wanders along various paths throughout the Essais reading other meanings, with a topographic, genetic or genealogic eye.
