Montaigne - Stefan Zweig Crime winner of the Prix M�dicis

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Montaigne - Stefan Zweig Crime winner of the Prix M�dicisHe who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.'Stefan Zweig was already an migr driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him make sense of his own life and his obsessions with personal freedom, with the sanctity of the individual. Through his writings on suicide, he would also,