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The members of France’s august Academie Française are called immortels, but they are as mortal as the rest of us. Death took one of them, Marc Fumaroli (1932–2020), on...

Montaigne: La Vie Sans Loi ?by pierre manent? flammarion, 366 pages, 22 € Michel de Montaigne’s autobiographical Essays abound with aphorisms. (“We say, ‘I have done nothing today.’ What,...