Chapter 5. The Making of a Gentleman (1570–1580)

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue xi
5. Introduction xvii
6. Part One. Ambitions
7. Chapter 1. The Eyquems’ Social Ascension 3
8. Chapter 2. A First Career as a Magistrate (1556–1570) 48
9. Chapter 3. La Boétie and Montaigne: Discourse on Servitude and Essay of Allegiance 112
10. Chapter 4. “Witness My Cannibals”: The Encounter with the Indians of the New World 155
11. Chapter 5. The Making of a Gentleman (1570–1580) 183
12. Chapter 6. The Essais of 1580: Moral, Political, and Military Discourses 254
13. Part Two. Practices
14. Chapter 7. The Call of Rome, or How Montaigne Never Became an Ambassador (1580–1581) 319
15. Chapter 8. “Messieurs of Bordeaux Elected Me Mayor of Their City” (1581–1585) 408
16. Chapter 9. “Benignity of the Great” and “Public Ruin” (1585–1588) 482
17. Chapter 10. The Marginalization of Montaigne (1588–1592) 549
18. Part Three. Post Mortem
19. Chapter 11. Montaigne’s Political Posterity 613
20. Epilogue 631
21. Abbreviations 635
22. Notes 637
23. Bibliography 723
24. Translations Cited 765
25. Index 767