" Does the substance of the chroniclers' account of the habits and actions of Indian cultures drive Montaigne's retelling of it or does the subject matter of the Essais (". Through a careful comparison of the accounts of the New World by López de Gómara and Thevet with Montaigne's reworking of these accounts, this paper examines Todorov's assertion that Montaigne "uses the Indians to illustrate his theses concerning our own society rather than seeking to know. internal and external threats to peace and well-being. Caught between substantial domestic and local responsibilities and serious national and interanational crises requiring his attention, Michel de Montaigne turned to the accounts of the New World by Francisco López de Gómara, André Thevet, and Jean de Léry not only as an escape from the political and religious unrest of his time but as an instructive view of how other cultures had dealt with.
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