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Excerpt from Essays by Montaigne
In 1557 the Court of Aids of P�rigueux was consolidated with the Parliament of Bordeaux, and Montaigne, at the early age of twenty-four, was seated on the bench of a supreme court ofjustice. He formed a deep friendship with Stephen de la Bo'etie; an affection, wrote Bayle St. John.
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