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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
Questions of Method and the Politics of a Book
Part One—Ambitions
Chapter 1: The Eyquems’ Social Ascension
A Family Matter
“Nobilibus parentibus”
Living Nobly
“We Latinized Ourselves”
The Balance Sheet of a Humanist Education
Chapter 2: A First Career as a Magistrate (1556–1570)
Parlementary Habitus
From the Cour des Aides in Périgueux to the Parlement in Bordeaux
Michel de Montaigne, Royal Councillor
The Religious Question
Chapter 3: La Boétie and Montaigne: Discourse on Servitude and Essay of Allegiance
The Letter about La Boétie’s Death
La Boétie’s Political Treatises: The Memorandum and the Discourse
Voluntary Servitude and Allegiance
The Politics of a Friendship
Chapter 4: “Witness My Cannibals”: The Encounter with the Indians of the New World
Tupinambas and Tabajaras
From Rouen to Bordeaux
“Their Warfare Is Wholly Noble and Generous”
A “Simulacrum of the Truth”
Chapter 5: The Making of a Gentleman (1570–1580)
The Break with the Parlement
Montaigne as Editor of La Boétie’s Works
Dedicatees Influential at the Court
An Inconvenient Publication
An Influential Neighbor: The Marquis of Trans
Honorific Rewards and Clientelism
Montaigne at Work
Chapter 6: The Essais of 1580: Moral, Political, and Military Discourses
“A Discourse on My Life and Actions”
The First Reader of the Essais
“Of the Battle of Gods”
An Apology for Sebond or a Justification of Montaigne?
A Skeleton in the Closet
A Royal Audience and a Military Siege
Part Two—Practices
Chapter 7: The Call of Rome, or How Montaigne Never Became an Ambassador (1580–1581)
On Territory “Subject to the Emperor”
The Ambassador’s Trade
A Montaigne in Spain
Montaigne in Rome
Paul de Foix and the Suspicion of Heresy
Roman Citizen
The Essais “Castigated and Brought into Harmony with the Opinions of the Monkish Doctors”
The Sociability of the Baths
The Travel Journal and the Secretary
Chapter 8: “Messieurs of Bordeaux Elected Me Mayor of their City” (1581–1585)
The Mayor’s Book
Bordeaux and Its Administration
The Public Welfare
A Contested Reelection
Manager of the City and “Tender Negotiator”
An “Administration … without a Mark or a Trace”?
Chapter 9: “Benignity of the Great” and “Public Ruin” (1585–1588)
“Through an Extraordinarily Ticklish Part of the Country”
Secret Mission
“I Buy Printers in Guienne, Elsewhere They Buy Me”
Imprisoned in the Bastille
“A Girl in Picardy”
Observer at the Estates General of Blois
“Actum est de Gallia”
Chapter 10: The Marginalization of Montaigne (1588–1592)
A Tranquil Life
“The Only Book in the World of Its Kind”
From History to the Essay: Commynes and Tacitus
Socrates or Political Suicide
Montaigne’s Death
Part Three—Post Mortem
Chapter 11: Montaigne’s Political Posterity
Political Appropriations
Censure and Morality
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Translations Cited
Index
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