To understand what a real essay is, we have to
reach back into history again, though this time not so far.
To Michel de Montaigne, who in 1580 published a book of
what he called "essais." He was
doing something quite different from what lawyers do, and
the difference is embodied in the name. Essayer is the French
verb meaning "to try"
and an essai is an attempt. An essay is something you
write to try to figure something out.
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