The success of the Essais appears to be linked to the development of the libertine school of thought. Despite the external triumph of the moral order at the end of the seventeenth century, Michel de Montaigne remained an inspiration to inquisitive thinkers attentive to social evolution, therefore contributing to the birth of the secular spirit.
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