Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (28 February 1533 — 13 September 1592) was a French Renaissance man,[2] statesman, and writer. He was a court official in the late Valois-Angoulême period of the Kingdom of France. Montaigne was the inventor of essay-writing and was one of the most important philosophers of the French Renaissance.
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| Born | February 28, 1533 Château de Montaigne, Guyenne, Kingdom of France |
| Died | September 13, 1592 (aged 59) Château de Montaigne, Guyenne, Kingdom of France |
| Period | French Renaissance |
| Genres | Essays, non-fiction |
| Subjects | Christianity, classics, education, human nature, morals, philosophy, science, truth |
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Michel De Montaigne Media
The coat of arms of Michel Eyquem, Lord of Montaigne
Portrait of Montaigne c. 1565, by an anonymous artist
Portrait of Michel de Montaigne around 1578 by Dumonstier
Journey to Italy by Michel de Montaigne 1580–1581
Portrait of 1587 by Étienne Martellange
Portrait of Montaigne circa 1590 by an anonymous artist
Château de Montaigne, a house built on the land once owned by Montaigne's family. His original family home no longer exists, although the tower in which he wrote still stands.
The Tour de Montaigne (Montaigne's tower), where Montaigne's library was located, remains mostly unchanged since the sixteenth century.
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References
- ↑ Miner, Robert (2017). "Gay Science and the Practice of Perspectivism". Nietzsche and Montaigne. pp. 43–93. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66745-4_3. ISBN 978-3-319-66744-7.
- ↑ Heck, Francis S. (1971). "The Meaning of Solitude in Montaigne's Essays". The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. 25 (3): 93–97. doi:10.2307/1346683. JSTOR 1346683.
Other websites
- Essays Archived 2005-06-24 at the Wayback Machine