HyperEssays

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HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne https://hyperessays.net/

Colorful confetti over a black and white engraved portrait of Michel de Montaigne. Montaigne is depicted as a middle-aged man, with a mustache and a goatee. He is wearing a ruff and a black hat that covers his receding hairline. He is staring at the viewer with a calm expression. There is no known portrait of Montaigne, only imagined or possible portraits, most, if not all, done after or long after his death. This engraving, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, is from 1774.
Screenshot of a MacOS app. It shows a list of words (from John Florio’s translation of Montaigne’s “Of Experience”) with their associated normalized forms and lemmas. It also displays information about this chapter’s TEI file: its location, its last update date, etc.
Top chapter views. 1: To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die (6549 views). 2: On Sorrow (5862 views). 3: On Friendship (2871 views). Out of 105466 chapter requests, 61670 were for the contemporary edition of the Essays. Chapters in Middle French got 27,565 views.
A list of words, in JSON format, showing one of them with a “notation” attribute set to “florio-ism.”
The words “the impertinent bedrowle,” in print, shown from John Florio’s edition of Montaigne’s essays.