What Do I Know? on Montaigne and the Art of Living

“My métier, my art, is to live” — Michel de Montaigne

Photo by Léonard Cotte on Unsplash

Throughout history, when the line between truth and madness, freedom, and injustice faded into nonexistence, writing was all one could do to maintain one last semblance of reality.

The Religious Wars of 16th-century France were one of these times, where being a…