Rene Louis d'Argenson's ESSAYS...IN THE MANNER OF M. MONTAGNE is an English translation of his ESSAIS DANS LE GOUT DE CEUX DE MONTAGNE. The present edition is based on the American (Boston) translation of 1797.There was also a translation published in Dublin in 1789. The original was composed in 1736 and published after the author's death by his son in 1787. There are in all fifty essays dealing with historical and literary figures of which a number of essays dealt with 18thC personalities and issues. The work is described as being interspersed with "characters, portraits and ancedotes."