Fortunat Joseph Strowski de Robkowa (16 May 1866 – 11 July 1952) was a French literary historian, essayist and critic. A specialist on

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and

Montaigne Michel Eyquem, Sieur de Montaigne ( ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), also known as the Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a liter ...

, he superintended the first critical edition of Montaigne's ''

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''.

Life

Fortunat Strowski was born in

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to a Jewish family from Galicia, then a province of the

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. He was educated in France, where he was a student of

Ferdinand Brunetière Ferdinand Brunetière (19 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic. Personal and public life Early years Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Gr ...

. In 1906 Strowski produced an edition of Montaigne's Essays based upon the

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copy (a copy of the fifth edition, with additions in Montaigne's own hand, preserved in the Bordeaux City Library), rather than the posthumously published 1595 edition of the Essays. In 1930 Strowksi was named professor of contemporary French history at the Sorbonne. In 1939 he took up a position at the new

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. He died in Cervières in France in 1952.

Works

* ''Saint François de Sales; introduction à l'histoire du sentiment religieux en France au dix-septième siècle'', 1897 * ''Histoire du sentiment religieux en France au XVIIe siècle: Pascal et son temps'', 1907 * ''Tableau de la littérature française au XIXe siècle'', 1912 * ''Tableau de la littérature française : au XIXe siècle et au XXe siècle'', 1924 * ''La sagesse française: Montaigne, Saint François de Sales, Descartes, La Rochefoucauld, Pascal'', 1925 * ''Les Pensées de Pascal; étude et analyse'', 1929 * ''Montaigne; sa vie publique et privée '', 1938

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