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He had also discovered a new passion: the 16th century French essayist Montaigne.
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Their chief studies at this time were in Locke and Hume and the French essayists.
3
In his mandarin analysis of the outwardly mundane, Eco was influenced by the French essayist and counterculture guru Roland Barthes.
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He was anxious to refute the scepticism of the French essayist Michel Montaigne (1553-92) who had denied that anything was either certain or even probable.