1 MONTAIGNE STUDIES
An Interdisciplinary Forum
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Editoraal Board:
Cathleen Bauschatz Barbara Bowen Elisabeth Caron Catherine Randall Coats Tom C. Conley Charlotte Costa Kleis Robert Cottrell Betty J. Davis Gérard Defaux Philippe Desan Gabrielle Divay Colin Dickson William Engel
Sue Farquhar
Michael Giordano Floyd Gray Patrick Henry Maryanne Horowitz Constance Jordan Dalia Judovitz Lawrence D. Kritzman Eva Kushner Raymond La Charité Élaine Limbrick Kenneth Lloyd-Jones Robert Melançon Glyn Norton John Nothnagle François Paré T. Anthony Perry Dora Polachek Richard L. Regosin Steven Rendall
Régine Reynolds-Cornell
François Rigolot Mary Rowan Randolph Runyon Tilde Sankowitch David Schaefer Paula Sommers Donald Stone Marcel Tetel Gwendolyn Trottein Marcelle Maistre Welch
Dana Zinguer
Di~edor~Treasurer:
Daniel Martin
Editor-in-Chief for
1991:
Robert D. Cottrell
Ohio State University
Advisory Boarck Philippe Desan
University of Chicago
Floyd Gray
University of Michigan
Eva Kushner
Victoria University
Steven Rendall
University of Oregon
François Rigolot
Princeton University

For Volume IV (1992), manuscripts may be sent to Professor Philippe Desan, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, IL 60637.

The Editor-in-Chief for Volume V (1993) will be Professor François Rigolot, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Prin- ceton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.

Annuel subscription is $18.75 for individuels and $22.50 for institutions with check payable to Montaigne Studies or to Hesf/a Press, P.O. Box 2381, Amherst, MA 01004.
2 MONTAIGNE STIIDIES, An In~ralisciplinary Forumr is issued under the direction of an Editor-in-Chief, selected among American and Canadian scholars. The journal is published and distributed by Hestia Press.


The journal MONTAIGNE STIIDIES is strongly interdisciplina- ry and welcomes a variety of approaches from difFerent disciplines and written in either French, Spanish, German, Italian or English. Contributors should follow the MLA style.


For subscriptions to MONTAIGNE STIIDIES, please write to Hestia Press, P.O. Box 2381, Amherst, MA 01004. The cost of back issues is as follows: First Issue (Vol. I, N° 1 - Nov. 1989), including shipment is $11.95. Vol. II, consists of two numbers: N° 1 - (Sept. 1990), and N° 2 (Dec. 1990) is $18.75. This is Vol. III, N° 1 - (Sept. 1991) and N° 2 (Dec. 1991) and colts $18.75. The colt of the annual subscription (for two numbers) is $18.75 for individuals and $22.50 for institutions.

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Thanks are given here to Laurence Marion-Ferrell, Manuscript Editor, who skillfully assisted Professor Robert D. Cottrell at Ohio State University in the preparation of this publication.



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