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[karmic carbon]

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[tribal linden]

a treatise = un traité
treatise on XXX = traité de XXX
Intoductory essay ≈ une introduction
tomes = des tomes, des volumes

[tribal linden]

The word "un essai" exists in French to describe some kind of argumentative piece of writing, but a fairly different kind that what you would call "an essay" in English