Abstract: During the French civil wars, this work, following in the footsteps of Michel de Montaigne’s Essais, offered discourse that could help comfort the mind and soul. This edition places the work in its literary and intellectual context and addresses the question of who may have authored it.
Keyword: Bible, ancient philosophy, exercises of virtue, passions, stanzas, epistle, Marie Le Gendre, Madame de Rivery, Humanism, sixteenth-century literature
