Michel de Montaigne
French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman (1533-1592)
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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ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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. JSTOR 1346683.
Other websitesEdit
- Essays Archived 2005-06-24 at the Wayback Machine
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