Michel de Montaigne
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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 Eyquem de Montaigne (28 February 1533 — 13 September 1592) was a French Renaissance man,[1] 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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- ↑ 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.
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- Essays Archived 2005-06-24 at the Wayback Machine