Marcel Conche, is an excellent translator and commentator of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaximander and Epicurus, and a great commentator of Homer and Montaigne. As usual, he gives us here a translation and a rigorous and enlightening comment on the thought of Lao Tzu. This book shows surprisingly that the paths taken by Western wisdom and those of Eastern wisdom are close and seem to lead to the same place to the same truths. As mentioned in another review, you have on one or two pages the translation of a chapter of the Tao and several pages of comments printed in the same size, same font, same style as the translation but do not stop the presentation. Usually in the books translated by Marcel Conche (Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaximander, Epicure) translated fragments are bold while the review is in normal font so it is certainly not a deliberate choice of the author / translator. It would be a shame to stop at appearances, after all you do not buy a book for its cover or its typeface but for the wisdom it represents and there is a good chance that this is the best French translation of the Tao (or at least the one with the greater internal cohesion).
