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	Michel De Montaigne - LoveToKnow Watches
		Montaigne visited most of the famous cities of the north and centre, staying five months at Rome, where he had an audience of the pope and was made a Roman citizen, and finally establishing himself at the baths of Lucca for nearly as long a time.
		Montaigne is far too much occupied about all sorts of the minutest details of human life to make it for a moment admissible that he regarded that life as a whole but as smoke and vapour.
		Mme de Montaigne gave her a copy of the edition of 1588 annotated copiously; at the same time, apparently, she bestowed another copy, also annotated by the author, on the convent of the Feuillants in Bordeaux, to which the church in which his remains lay was attached.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Michel_De_Montaigne (4054 words)

	Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Montaigne is one of the most important French writers of the Renaissance, having a direct influence on writers the world over, from Shakespeare to Emerson, from Nietzsche to Rousseau.
		Montaigne was born in Périgord on the family estate Château de Montaigne, in a town now called Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, not far from Bordeaux.
		Montaigne died in 1592 at the Château de Montaigne and was buried nearby.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montaigne (1566 words)

	Essays (Montaigne) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Montaigne wrote in a kind of crafted rhetoric designed to intrigue and involve the reader, sometimes appearing to move in a stream-of-thought from topic to topic and at other times employing a structured style which gives more emphasis to the didactic nature of his work.
		Montaigne is disgusted with the violent and, in his opinion, barbaric conflicts between Catholics and Protestants of his time, and his writings show a pessimism and skepticism quite uncharacteristic for the Renaissance.
		Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked the strong feelings of romantic love as being detrimental to freedom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Essays_(Montaigne) (739 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Montaigne was one of the greatest masters of the essay as a literary form.
		Born at the Château of Montaigne in Périgord, he was the son of a rich Catholic landowner and a mother of Spanish Jewish descent.
		Montaigne's last essays reflect his acceptance of life as good and his conviction that humankind must discover their own nature in order to live with others in peace and dignity.
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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Michel de Montaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.
		Montaigne was born in Périgord, on the family estate Château de Montaigne near Bordeaux.
		Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with a peasant family and a tutor until he was six, and while he lived there he spoke exclusively in Latin, the language of the educated class.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Michel_de_Montaigne (3584 words)

	Man according to Montaigne
		Michel de Montaigne was by no means the first to set out on the project of describing Man, but his method and style were certainly original.
		Montaigne wanted very much to be truthful in his account, but, as he explains "one can tell what a delicate business this search for the truth is, when one cannot rely, in the case of a battle, on the knowledge of the man who commanded in it" (Montaigne p.
		Montaigne himself had the advantage of a wealthy and educated family, who, for reasons unknown, ensured that his mother tongue was Latin.
	www.concentric.net /~piakate/papers/soc2.htm (1693 words)

	Wikinfo \| Michel de Montaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 - September 23,1592) was a French Renaissance thinker, a Humanist who took mankind and especially himself as the object of study in his main work, the Essais.
		Montaigne was born in Périgord, on the family estate Château de Montaigne.
		Montaigne is disgusted with the violent and for him barbaric conflicts between Catholics and Protestants of his time, and his writings show a pessimism and skepticism quite uncharacteristic for the Renaissance.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Michel_de_Montaigne (816 words)

	Montaigne - MSN Encarta
		Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born February 28, 1533, in the Château de Montaigne (near Libourne) of a wealthy family, and educated at the Collège de Guyenne.
		As a thinker Montaigne is noted for his investigation of institutions, opinions, and customs and for his opposition to all forms of dogmatism that have no rational basis.
		On education, Montaigne, who was interested in the training of the aristocrat, held that the pupil should be taught the art of living.
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	ArtandCulture Artist: Michel de Montaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At 38 Montaigne retired from public service and began what was to be his life's true work, the "Essais," or "Attempts." Though interrupted by wars, a breakout of the plague, and various forced forays into politics, Montaigne completed three books of the essays before his death at 59.
		Montaigne's recurring topic was human nature; for him, the human creature was weak, foolish, arrogant in its tiny portion of knowledge, "a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating thing." Yet despite his skepticism and poor opinion of the species, Montaigne's joie de vivre was a bright light that few shadows have the power to suppress.
		Montaigne Studies is "an interdisciplinary journal published annually in the fall at the University of Chicago." This beautiful web site includes a portrait gallery, images of all known editions of Montaigne's books, information about the journal (contents, subscriptions), and links to Renaissance-related sites.
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	Michel de Montaigne
		Montaigne visited most of the famous cities of the north and center, staying five months at Rome, where he had an audience of the pope and was made a Roman citizen, and finally establishing himself at the baths of Lucca for nearly as long a time.
		Montaigne is far too much occupied about all sorts of the minutest details of human life to make it for a moment admissible that he regarded that life as a whole but as smoke and vapor.
		de Montaigne gave her a copy of the edition of 1588 annotated copiously; at the same time, apparently, she bestowed another copy, also annotated by the author, on the convent of the Feuillants in Bordeaux, to which the church in which his remains lay was attached.
	www.nndb.com /people/906/000096618 (3610 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| LRB essay \| A towering intellect
		Montaigne's thought processes and his shifting attitudes to his sources, his sudden frisks from what he has experienced to what he has read and back again, these are what the Essays are.
		Montaigne's explorations of the processes of being are as important as the work of any significant philosopher in the Renaissance, despite their apparent lack of firm and consistent principle.
		She takes from Montaigne's longest essay, An Apology for Raymond Sebond, the part jocular claim that he is "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher", and seeks to explain what an "accidental philosopher" might be.
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,1082801,00.html (2311 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Michel de Montaigne (1533)
		Montaigne is quick with the ancient maxims, but his repeated references to ancient wisdom are misapplied and ingenuous.
		The other point Montaigne reports on the reactions of these savage cannibals is that they found it strange that in a culture of halves and haves nots, and rich and poor, that the poor who suffered from such injustice, did not take the rich by their throat and set fire to their homes.
		Montaigne judges the refrain and its sentiment as Anacreontic -- referring to Anacreon of Teos, a poet known for love songs and revered in antiquity as second only to Sappho from Lesbos--and honored in his day by a statue on the Athenian Acropolis near another statue of none other than Pericles.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Michel-Eyquen de Montaigne
		At an early age Michel had a German tutor, who was obliged to speak to him in Latin only.
		At the age of six and a half he was sent to the College of Guyenne at Bordeaux, where he remained seven years.
		Montaigne being absent from the town did not feel obliged to return to it.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10512c.htm (745 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Michel de Montaigne
		Michel de Montaigne was born on 28 February, 1533.
		Montaigne is credited with being the initiator of the essay as a modern literary form, and was the first to use the French word essais, meaning 'attempt', to describe this form of writing.
		Montaigne's earlier essays are weighed more heavily with quotations than his later ones, because he grew more bold with his own thoughts as he published later editions.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A471133 (1519 words)

	Michel de Montaigne - World's Greatest Classic Books
		Montaigne was a French courtier, essayist and philosopher who lived during the reign of Charles IX.
		Montaigne was the son of Pierre Eyquem and Antoinette de Louppes (Lopez).
		Montaigne was carefully educated by his father and baptized a Roman Catholic.
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	Michel de Montaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1571 he succeeded to the family estate at Montaigne, and lived the life of a country gentleman, varied by visits to Paris and a tour in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.
		Montaigne called his later collection of writings "Essais," which is French (Old French spelling) for 'trials' or 'attempts'.
		I like Montaigne's writing because he keeps going and coming back to his subjects from different angles, not saying too much each time, never speaking from assumption and always humble in his opinions.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~rob/Montaigne.html (379 words)

	Michel de Montaigne
		Montaigne was a Deist and although once, when he was ill, sent for a priest — "You can at any time get a priest to hold your hands and rub your feet," he remarks in one essay —; he may have been a secret Atheist.
		Montaigne's friend, Étienne Pasquier, believed he was doing the helpless essayist a service by calling the priest: Montaigne's tongue was paralyzed with quinsy.
		Montaigne died at Château Montaigne on 13 September 1592 at age 59 — but he died as he had lived: a Humanist, believing in God, but with a great disdain for the Church.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0228almanac.htm (604 words)

	Amazon.ca: Complete Essays of Montaigne: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We love Montaigne for his humanity, his wisdom, his clear insight into human nature, his tolerance of our weaknesses and failings, his love and compassion for all creatures whether man, animal, or plant, his calm, gentle and amiable voice, his stately and dignified progress as he conducts us through the vast repository of his mind.
		Montaigne was not afraid to speak his mind, and as a man who was interested in almost everything, his observations range from the curious through to the truly profound.
		Montaigne as that single special cricket singing away in the forest of learning along with thousands of others, is not only worth singling out because of his vast repertoire of songs, but even more because of the special way he sang them.
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	Michel de Montaigne
		Montaigne is a great French Renaissance thinker who took himself as the great object of study in his Essays.
		Montaigne's skepticism is largely confined to An Apology for Raymond Sebond which was originally the (very long) twelth chapter of Book II of the Essays but is often published separately.
		Montaigne is famous for arguing that man is not in any way superior to the beasts, in fact, quite the contrary.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/montaigne.html (471 words)

	Philosophy / MICHEL de MONTAIGNE : On Solitude
		Montaigne lived during the seething religious civil wars of France, which formed the heart of his reflections on how an intelligent person copes with a world gone mad.
		Montaigne quotes Juvenal, Horace, Virgil, Persius, Lucretius, Tibullus, Terence, and Propertius, but these are exercises required to display his wide reading and to identify him with the ancients, whom he projects to be saner company.
		This is Montaigne's Stoic compromise versus that of Lao-Tzu or the Desert Fathers: to continue to reside in the world but assume one is not of the world.
	forum.erraticwisdom.com /viewtopic.php?id=269 (1041 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Montaigne's father, ambitious for his son's education, permitted him to hear and speak only Latin until he was six.
		Montaigne's works have been widely read abroad and have greatly influenced English literature.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/montaign.asp (441 words)

	Michel de Montaigne - Cambridge University Press
		Michel de Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, has always been acknowledged as a great literary figure but has never been thought of as a philosophical original.
		This book is the first to treat Montaigne as a serious thinker in his own right, taking as its point of departure Montaigne's description of himself as 'an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher'.
		Whereas previous commentators have treated Montaigne's Essays as embodying a skepticism harking back to classical sources, Ann Hartle offers a fresh account that reveals Montaigne's thought to be dialectical, transforming skeptical doubt into wonder at the most familiar aspects of life.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521821681 (322 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Michel de Montaigne
		He therefore engaged as the little Michel’s tutor a German classical scholar whose French was not good, and who was instructed to communicate with the child only in the purest possible classical Latin.
		Michel’s parents and his nurse were obliged to follow suit as best they could, so his first language was in fact Latin and not French.
		This idyllic form of study could not last, however, and in 1539 or 40, at the age of six or so, Montaigne was sent to attend the new and well-reputed Collège de Guyenne.
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	Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Montaigne was then fifty-seven; he had suffered for some years past from renal colic and gravel; and it was with the necessity of distraction from his pain, and the hope of deriving relief from the waters, that he undertook at this time a great journey.
		He (Montaigne) observed that it was difficult to believe considering the limited area taken up by any of her seven hills and particularly the two most favoured ones, the Capitoline and the Palatine, that so many buildings stood on the site.
		Montaigne, in his new employment, the most important in the province, obeyed the axiom, that a man may not refuse a duty, though it absorb his time and attention, and even involve the sacrifice of his blood.
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	Amazon.com: Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics): Books: Michel de Montaigne,M. A. Screech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Montaigne's essays are invaluable not only for the man that they portray, but for the wisdom in what is spoken.
		Montaigne has thought about so many aspects of what it is to be a human and alive, and we can all learn from this.
		Montaigne is the definitive philosopher, a man driven to write out of boredom, who presents his essays as his views, never trying to categorize and name realities, but simply marvelling over everything, from literature to pets.
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	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| The Complete Works by Michel de Montaigne
		Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533—92) was the first to use the term “essay”; to refer to the form he pioneered, and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners.
		He reflected on the great themes of existence in his wise and engaging writings, his subjects ranging from proper conversation and good reading, to the raising of children and the endurance of pain, from solitude, destiny, time, and custom, to truth, consciousness, and death.
		Montaigne speaks to us always in a personal voice in which his virtues of tolerance, moderation, and understanding are dazzlingly manifest.
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