Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ( mon-TAYN; French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), also known as Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. His massive volume Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on Western writers including Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, Virginia Woolf, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Henry Newman, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Alexander Pushkin, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, Fulton Sheen and possibly, on the later works of William Shakespeare. During his lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that, "I am myself the matter of my book", was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne came to be …
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מישל אקם דה מונטן, Michel de Monten', মিশেল দ্য মন্টেইন, and 84 others
Michail Monten', Michiel de Montanje, Монтэнь, Мишель де Монтень, Միշել դը Մոնտեն, Michael von Montagne, Michel Eyguem de Montaigne, Mišel de Montenj, मान्तेन, Michel Eyquem Montaigne, Michel Equem de Montaigne, Montagne, Мишел дьо Монтен, М. де Монтень, Мішель де Монтень, Michael von Montaigne, M. de Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, میشێل دێ مۆنتێن, ميشيل مونتاني،, Montenʹ Michelʹ, מישל דה מונטיין, מיכאל די מונטין, میشل دو مونتین, Michael Montanus, 米歇爾·德·蒙泰涅, Mişel de Monten, ミシェル・ド・モンテーニュ, Монтань, Michał Montaigne, Michel de Montaigne, Мишель Эйкем Де Монтень, Michel Eugene de Montaigne, Michel De Montaigne, ... de la Montaigne, מישל דה מונטין, ... de Montaigne, მიშელ დე მონტენი, မွန်တိန်း အမ်၊ အီ, Miquèl de Montanha, Michel de la Montaigne, Montaigne Eyquem de, Michael de Montaigne, Mišelis de Montenis, Mišels de Monteņs, Мишель Монтень, Michel E. de Montaigne, Мішэль дэ Мантэнь, Монтень, モンテェニュ, میشل دو مونتنی, Michel de Montagne, מישל דה מונטן, Mishelʹ Montenʹ, Michel Ayquem de Montaigne, Mihailo Montaigne, 미셸드몽테뉴, Μισέλ ντε Μονταίν, Montagna, Michel Monten, Монтан, Michael Montaigne, مائیکل ڈی مونتین, Мишель Де Монтень, Misel d̲e Montaini, מישל דה־מונטן, ميشيل دي مونتين, Michel di Montagna, Michał z Montaigne, Michel Di Montagna, Montanus, Michiel di Montagna, מישל אקס דה מונטן, M モンテーニュ, מיכאל די־מונטין, ミシェル・ド モンテーニュ, Montēnyu, 미셸 드 몽테뉴, Mikhaĭlo Montanʹe, Montaigne, Mišels de Montēņs, Mišelʹ Montén, Michel Montaigne, Мишел де Монтењ - Born:
- Feb. 28, 1533
- Died:
- Sept. 13, 1592
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ( mon-TAYN; French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), also known as Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. His massive volume Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on Western writers including Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, Virginia Woolf, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Henry Newman, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Alexander Pushkin, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, Fulton Sheen and possibly, on the later works of William Shakespeare. During his lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that, "I am myself the matter of my book", was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne came to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt that began to emerge at that time. He is most famously known for his skeptical remark, "Que sçay-je?" ("What do I know?", in Middle French; now rendered as Que sais-je? in modern French).
