Michel de Montaigne
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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 | Château de Montaigne, Guyenne, Kingdom of France | February 28, 1533
Died | September 13, 1592 Château de Montaigne, Guyenne, Kingdom of France | (aged 59)
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
Portrait of Michel de Montaigne around 1578 by Dumonstier
Portrait of 1587 by Étienne Martellange
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