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"Montaigne: The Essays" performed and directed by Éric Sanson.<div> Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) invented a new genre in the Europe of Shakespeare, Cervantes, and the Wars of Religion: holding up a mirror to the reader by speaking of himself as openly as possible. This was in an attempt to become "good neighbors to the things closest to us." No one had ever tried to doubt to such an extent, to the point of doubting doubt itself, and to make wisdom, the art of living, and joy the very essence of existence.</div><div> The Essays transform the reader. How to face death, to love one's failures and others, to accept being ordinary, imperfect. In short: how to live?</div><div> Éric Sanson gives substance and a bit of present time to this bouquet of questions posed by the one who, in timeless pages, taught what he knew and, perhaps even more beneficial for the reader in terms of freedom, what he did not know.</div><div> "That such a man should have written truly increases the joy of living on earth," wrote Nietzsche. All readers of Montaigne agree with this.</div>