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| Title | Montaigne the Essayist: A Biography, Volume 2 Montaigne the Essayist: A Biography, Bayle St. John |
| Author | Bayle St. John |
| Publisher | Chapman and Hall, 1858 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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