496

EDITIONS OF MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS.

75. The same- -(forming part of the Panthéon Littéraire). Dedication; notice of the life of Montaigne, by M. Buchan. Bibliographical notice by Doctor Payen. De Gournay's preface. The Essays. Notes selected from all the commentators. Montaigne's journey. Ten letters. Avis de Catherine de Medicis à Charles IX. The Servitude Volontaire. List of authors quoted. Index.

1842.

76. ESSAIS DE MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE.-Nouvelle édition, précédée d'une Lettre a M. Villemain sur L'Eloge de Montaigne, par P. Christian. Paris: Victor Lecou. 1 vol. 8vo. No portrait; no translation of the quotations; no index. A few of the earlier copies had "une Lettre de M. Villemain," instead of a M. Villemain, in the title, either by mistake or for some other cause.

1844.

3 vols.

77. ESSAIS DE MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE,-avec les notes de tous les commentateurs. Ed. publiée par J. V. Leclerc. in 18°. Paris, Lefèvre. 1844.

1847.

78. ESSAIS DE MONTAIGNE.-Edition épurée, précédée d'une notice par M. l'Abbé Musard, in 8vo. J. de Noel, Epernay. Publication de la Société de Saint-victor. 1847.

79. The same as 76.

1853.

1854.

80. ESSAIS DE MONTAIGNE,-suivis de sa correspondance, et de la servitude volontaire D'Estienne de la Boëtie. Edition variorum, accompagnée d'une notice biographique, de notes historiques, philologiques, etc., et d'un index analytique; par Charles Louandre. Charpentier, Paris. 4 vols. 12mo. The text is that of Mademoiselle de Gournay in the editions of 1595 and 1635. Literal translations of the quotations are given with references at the foot of the page. There is a judicious selection from the notes of the various commentators, and notes have been added. Variations of the text are given among the foot-notes. New letters of Montaigne also appear for the first time in any edition of the Essays. The index is new, and very full, in fact so complete as to make all that precede it in the French language comparatively worthless. There are no marginal summaries, but the typography is excellent. We can sincerely recommend it to those who wish to read Montaigne in the original.

EXTRACTS

FROM THE

ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE.

1. At the head of these must be placed the edition of the Essays published at Geneva by Goulart. In the Scaligerana Secunda, at the article Goulart, we read: "Il a fait châtrer les œuvres de Montaigne: Quæ audacia in scripta aliena." At the article Montaigne, Scaliger says, in reference to Goulart: "Ceux de Genève ont été bien impudents d'en ôter plus d'un tiers."

2. Réponse à plusieurs injures et railleries écrites contre Michel, seigneur de Montaigne, dans un livre intitulé la Logique, ou l'Art de penser, avec un beau traité de l'education des enfants et cinq cents excellents passages, tirés du livre des Essais, pour montrer le mérite de cet auteur (by Guillaume Béranger, but published anonymously), Rouen, Laurens Maurry, 1667, 12mo.

3. The same.-With the author's name. Paris, J. Thoury, P. Débats et Augustin Besongue, 1668, 12mo.

This volume is now extremely rare; it is not in the King's Library at Paris, but it is in the British Museum, in the Library Sainte-Geneviève at Paris, and in the Public Library at Bor

deaux.

4. L'Esprit des Essais de Michel, seigneur de Montaigne. Paris, Charles de Sercy, 1677, 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, with portrait, and the Que sçais-je? Printed title-page.

5. Pensées de Montaigne, propres à former l'esprit et les mœurs. A Paris, chez Anisson, Directeur de l'imprimerie Royale, rue de la Harpe, 1700, 1 vol. 12mo.

6. The same. Seconde édition, considérablement augmentée, Amsterdam, Henri Desbordes et Etienne Roger, 1701, small 12mo. 7. The same.- -Amsterdam, 1703, Henri Desbordes au Kalves

traat, 12mo.

8. The same.-Paris, nouvelle édition, imprimerie bibliographique, au XIII (1805), 12mo.

9. L'Esprit de Montaigne, ou les Maximes, pensées, jugements et réflexions de cet auteur, rédigés par ordre de matières (by

EXTRACTS FROM THE ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE.

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Pesselier). Berlin (Paris), Etienne de Bordeaux, 1753, 12mo. 2 vols.

10. The same.-Nouvelle édition. Berlin et Paris. Rozet, 1767, 12mo. 2 vols.

Same edition as the preceding; there are only the titles changed.

11. The same.-Londres, 1783, 18mo. 2 vols. Portrait.

12. L'Ami des Jeunes Gens, ou Guide pour les conduire dans la société, leur inspirer l'amour des vertus, les éloigner du vice, etc.; ouvrage dans lequel on a extrait des morceaux de Plutarque, Cicéron, Pline, Quintilien, Montesquieu, Montaigne, Fénélon, Buffon, Raynal, etc. Paris, Deterville (no date), 2 vols. 12, fig. (by Retz, but published anonymously.) This work is the same that appeared in 1790, under the title Guide des Jeunes Gens de l'un et de l'autre sexe, à leur entrée dans le monde; the titles only are changed.

13. Le Portrait du Sage, extrait de Confucius, Platon, Zénon, Cicéron, Sénèque, Epictète, Marc Aurèle, Plutarque, Montaigne, Bacon, Charron, Fénélon, La Bruyère, Sterne, J.-J. Rousseau, Weiss, etc.; editeur, Gabriel Peignot, Paris, 1809, 12mo. 48 pages, "grand papier velin fort, tiré à 75 exemplaires tous numérotés, et deux sur papier rose."

14. L'Esprit de Montaigne, avec une préface et des notes, par M. Laurentie, Paris, Mequignon-Havart et Bricon, 1829, 18mo., 1 vol. Part of the Bibliothèque choisie, published under the

direction of M. Laurentie.

This volume is extracted not from the Essays, but from the work of Pesselier, which the present editor has, however abridged: "Nous avons gardé," says he, " dans ce recueil ce qui a dû être inspiré seulement par le christianisme; le grec du portique a disparu. Ce livre contient, non pas Montaigne échappé des écoles d'Athénes, mais Montaigne française et chrétien."

APPENDIX TO THE ESSAYS.

PART II.

PORTRAITS OF MONTAIGNE.

There are several PORTRAITS, reputed ORIGINALS, of Montaigne.

1. Fiquet has left us one, after a very remarkable portrait, painted in 1578, by Dumoustier.

2. The Montaigne engraved by Chéreau, in 1725, is after a portrait which at that time belonged to M. Berroyer, Counsellor to the Parliament.

3. That published by Delpech is copied from a portrait which was for a long time in the Depôt des Archives, and has only been recently removed thence.

1. The most ancient of the ENGRAVED PORTRAITS that I am acquainted with is that which appeared in the editions of 1611 and 1617, signed Thomas de Leu: it has some resemblance to that of Dumoustier.

2. Father Lelong (in the Bibliothèque Historique) mentions, about this epoch, a portrait of Montaigne by Jaspard Isaac. 3. The same, by Desrochers. 4to.

4. The edition of 1635 has a portrait, with no signature, which also appeared in the editions of 1652 and 1657. The armorial bearings by which it is accompanied are incorrect. In some copies the arms are omitted.

5. The edition of 1640 has a portrait, but without any signa

ture.

6. There is a portrait, signed N. de Larmessin, in the edition of Paris, 1659.

7. The same, also in the edition of Holland, 1659, with the signature P. Clouwet.

8. Also in the edition of Paris, 1669, with the signature Matheus. 9. There is a portrait of Montaigne, in the small size, in the work by Freher, published in 1688.

10, 11, 12. In the edition of the Essays, 1641, in that of "L'Esprit de Montaigne," 1677, and in the "Pensées," 1701, there is