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Montaigne

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Mon·taigne  (mn-tn, môn-tny), Michel Eyquem de 1533-1592.
French essayist whose discursive, lively personal essays are considered the highest expression of 16th-century French prose.
Montaigne (French) [mɔ̃tɛɲ]
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(Biographies / Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592) M, French, WRITING: writer, WRITING: essayist) Michel Eyquem de (miʃɛl ikɛm də). 1533-92, French writer. His life's work, the Essays (begun in 1571), established the essay as a literary genre and record the evolution of his moral ideas
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Noun1.Montaigne - French writer regarded as the originator of the modern essay (1533-1592)Montaigne - French writer regarded as the originator of the modern essay (1533-1592)
Michel Eyquem Montaigne, Michel Montaigne
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And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge?
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I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakspeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet.
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