Mon·taigne

(mŏn-tān′, môn-tĕn′yə), Michel Eyquem de 1533-1592.

French writer noted for developing the essay as a literary form as well as for the lively, personal quality of his prose.

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Montaigne

(French mɔ̃tɛɲ)

(Biography) 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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Mon•taigne

(mɒnˈteɪn; Fr. mɔ̃ˈtɛn y^ə)

n.

Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de, 1533–92, French essayist.

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Montaigne - French writer regarded as the originator of the modern essay (1533-1592)

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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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It was such love as Michelangelo had known, and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare himself.

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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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The essays, it should be added, were evidently suggested and more or less influenced by those of the great French thinker, Montaigne, an earlier contemporary of Bacon.

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Once I took such delight in Montaigne, that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare; then in Plutarch; then in Plotinus; at one time in Bacon; afterwards in Goethe; even in Bettine; but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius.

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One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533--92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before.

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Misreading Montaigne

The purpose of this note is to draw attention to a page of Montaigne's Essais almost systematically neglected by scholars (Rancoeur 539), in which the French philosopher deals with astrology and the legitimacy of astrological divination.

Scientia Stellarum: Montaigne on astrological knowledge (A note on the apology for Raymond Sebond)