Abstract: This article shows how Jean Meslier reconfigures several of Michel de Montaigne’s considerations in his Essais, by giving them a different, but no less legitimate, orientation than that found in the original. Meslier would have used the premises of disbelief postulated by Montaigne in order to draw irreligious conclusions. This article is offered as the first draft of a forthcoming study aimed at showing, by way of examples, some of these rewritings undertaken by the Abbé of Étrépigny.
