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Antoine Compagnon

Antoine Compagnon
Antoine Compagnon is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris, and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary degrees from King’s College London, HEC Paris, and the University of Liege.


Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don’t Read Too Much.

The Father of the Modern Essay Was Really Quite Unpretentious
June 27, 2019  By Antoine Compagnon
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