Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne ( ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous Western writers; his massive volume ''Essais'' contains some of the most influential essays ever written.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). Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1941
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1910
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Published 1944
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1960
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1967
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1959
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Published 1952
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1859
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 2007
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1886
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Published 1859
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1983
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Published 1886
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Published 1934
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Published 1993
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1964
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1927
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1875
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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1910
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