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	Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Montaigne died in 1592 at the Château de Montaigne and was buried nearby.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne (907 words)

	Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/Montaign.html (413 words)

	Michel de Montaigne
		Montaigne pursues his quest for knowledge through experience; the meaning of concepts is not set down by means of a definition, it is related to common language or to historical examples.
		Montaigne appears here as a founding father of the Counter Reformation, being the leader of the “Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens’, for whom scepticism is used as a means to an end, that is, to neutralize the grip that philosophy once had on religion.
		Montaigne was hailed by Claude Lévi-Strauss as the progenitor of the human sciences, and the pioneer of culural relativism.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/montaigne (6398 words)

	Montaigne: On Solitude - Articles - House of Solitude - Hermitary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
	www.hermitary.com /house/montaigne.html (1048 words)

	Montaigne and the Word Processor
		Montaigne went so far as to insist, in what many might still regard as a literary fashion, that his method of writing was as important as 'the matter' he wrote about ('Of books', II, 10: 343).
		Montaigne declared that 'Study and contemplation do in some sort withdraw from us, and deprive us of our souls, and employ it separately from the body, which is a kind of learning to die, and a resemblance of death' ('That to study philosophy, is to learn to die', I: 19: 63).
		Montaigne was aware of some of the problems that his mode of composition could give rise to, problems that this method shares with dictating to an amanuensis or a tape-recorder.
	www.aber.ac.uk /media/Documents/short/montword.html (4622 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)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Michel de Montaigne - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592) was a French Renaissance thinker who took himself as the object of study in his Essays (http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/montaigne/m-essays_contents).
		A lawyer and politician, he served as mayor of Bordeaux from 1581 to 1585, but had already started to write his great work, the Essais, which were published in 1580, enlarged in 1588 and still not completed to his satisfaction at the time of his death.
		Overall, Montaigne was known to be a strong supporter of Humanism, even indirectly claiming humans equal to God.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/mi/Michel_de_Montaigne (161 words)

	montaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Montaigne is one of the greatest intellectuals of 16th century Europe, who went on a cultural tour of Italy to see its artistic beauties and to cure his diseases.
		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 anyway superior to the beasts, in fact, quite the contrary.
	www.giovannicaselli.com /paginetraveller/montaigne.htm (835 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.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=132 (3960 words)

	Montaigne
		Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born on February 28, 1533 in the Chateau de Montaigne.
		Montaigne's life was going well until his good friend Etienne de la Boetie died in 1563 at the age of 32.
		Montaigne was devastated and never again had a close relationship with anyone.
	www.lakesideschool.org /studentweb/worldhistory/renaissance/Montaigne.htm (223 words)

	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
		Montaigne's father had him married in 1565 to the daughter of one of his parliamentary colleagues, Francoise de la Chassaigne.
		Montaigne spent much time writing in his study and traveling, and his relationship with Francoise was apparently not a particularly close one.
		Montaigne spent the last years of his life on his estate, writing the third and final Essais, and continuing to revise the old ones.
	www.lakesideschool.org /studentweb/worldhistory/renaissance2/MichelEyquemdeMontaigne.htm (1105 words)

	Montaigne (1533-1592).
		Montaigne was the initiator and greatest master of the Essay as a modern literary form.
		Much of Montaigne's early life is not known, other than this: his early care was taken out of his mother's hands and at the age of four he came under the direct supervision of his father.
		Montaigne, it seems, did come out of retirement and was to become the mayor of Bordeaux (1581-85).
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/Montaigne.htm (2954 words)

	montaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Montaigne was a French aristocrat, a wealthy country gentleman who lived in a chateau near Bordeaux and took part in public affairs.
		Montaigne largely invented the essay as a genre, and his most famous work is three volumes of witty and learned Essais on a wide range of subjects.
		Montaigne pointed out how religion was used by those in power to keep the people subservient (though he was not so cynical about religion as Machiavelli had been).
	unr.edu /homepage/nickles/wthonors/montaigne.htm (1697 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Complete Essays of Montaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		But in Montaigne this remote period becomes alive again, its comforts (or the lack of it), its smells, its behaviors, and of course the food (Montaigne was French after all) maintain their tangible presence and a glow like the memories of a distant childhood.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804704864?v=glance (2541 words)

	M - Montaigne - retired, seeking distance to a world of bloody fights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Montaigne liked being retired, seeking distance to a world of bloody fights between religious groups.
		Montaigne tried to escape dogmatic thoughts finding a new way of hammering out thoughts via his typical relaxed method of writing.
		Historically more secured is Montaigne's political identity: the France of his time had torn up, the faith splitting escalated in the "St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre" in Paris on 24 August 1572, bloody amuck in many other French cities followed, also in Montaigne's Bordeaux.
	www.frizztext.de /montaigne.html (466 words)

	Montaigne; or, the Skeptic
		Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers.
		Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.
		This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen, namely among courtiers, soldiers, princes, men of the world and men of wit and generosity.
	www.emersoncentral.com /montaigne.htm (6820 words)

	Michel de Montaigne
		Montaigne is a great French Renaissance thinker who took himself as the great object of study in his Essays.
		Montaigne is famous for arguing that man is not in any way superior to the beasts, in fact, quite the contrary.
		These discoveries provided Montaigne and other skeptics with a treasure chest of new facts which they used to increase our sense of relativity of all man's beliefs about himself and the world in which he lives.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/montaigne.html (471 words)

	Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		After his six years in the country, he was sent to study at a prestigious boarding school in Bordeaux, the, and afterwards he studied law in Toulouse and entered a career in the legal system.
		While serving at the Bordeaux Parlement, he became very close friends with the humanist writer Étienne de la Boétie whose death in 1563 deeply influenced Montaigne.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Michel_de_Montaigne (897 words)

	Life, Death, and Remembrance: The Montaigne Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michel de Montaigne was a Renaissance philosopher who, in his single greatest work, Essais, reflected on a broad range of issues.
		Montaigne finished the Essais almost ten years later, in 1580, quite a project whose aim is nothing more than to provide a self-portrait for one's surviving friends and family.
		That Montaigne took his thoughts and observations to be him is something that I find refreshing, in an age in which thoughts count for very little and certainly don't count at all as part of a person's identity.
	www.cuucsa.org /services/montaigne.html (749 words)

	The Role of Automata in the History of Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An account of the best sixteenth century examples was published by Montaigne in 1581.8 At the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, he particularly noted the fine statuary adorning the villa and the gardens, which had been reproduced from the finest sculptures of Rome.
		Montaigne was particularly impressed by the organs that played music to the accompaniment of the fall of water and devices which imitated the sound of trumpets.
		Montaigne observed similar displays at the archducal villa of Scarperio in Tuscany, and he noted especially the casino of the Archduke of Florence with its mills motivated by water and air power to operate small church clocks, animals, soldiers, and countless other automata.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~DRBR/b_edini.html (6810 words)

	UC Davis Philosophy 22 Lecture Notes: Montaigne
		This is the tactic used by Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) in defense of the teachings of the Catholic Church.
		Montaigne was not attempting to uphold human reason--far from it.
		Montaigne then rehearsed the problem of the criterion as showing the hopelessness of a resolution.
	www-philosophy.ucdavis.edu /mattey/phi022/montlec.htm (737 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Michel-Eyquen de Montaigne
		His great-grandfather had been a Bordeaux merchant of wines, salt fish, etc., and it was he who purchased the estate of Montaigne.
		Two years later Montaigne married Françoise de la Chassaigne, the daughter of a parliamentary advocate.
		Montaigne being absent from the town did not feel obliged to return to it.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10512c.htm (766 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Montaigne was a humanist and a skeptic in his philosophical approach, and essentially looked at his own experience as the first topic for examination always.
		Montaigne's stated task in his preface to the reader is for self-examination, but it becomes very clear that Montaigne sees himself as an 'everyman' character.
		Montaigne was sometimes conventional in thought (seeing marriage as necessary for children, and distrusting the idea of romantic love), but other times he was very much a free thinker (particularly when it came to religious dogma or absolutist kinds of philosophical paradigms).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140446044?v=glance (2491 words)

	AllRefer.com - Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de, French Literature, Biographies
		Born at the ChAteau of Montaigne in PErigord, he was the son of a rich Catholic landowner and a mother of Spanish Jewish descent.
		After seven years at the CollEge de Guyenne in Bordeaux, he studied for the law, held a magistracy until 1570, and was (1581–85) mayor of Bordeaux.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Montaign.html (509 words)

	Moral Barbarism in Montaigne's "Of Cannibals" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In "Of Cannibals," Montaigne approaches his subject matter with a frankness and attention to detail that pulls the reader into his argument.
		However, he is not writing with the purpose of persuading the European reader into adapting such cannibalistic practices as described, but is rather using the stark contrast between these two cultures as a way to enhance the flaws of his own society.
		Montaigne layers this work with detailed descriptions, such as his meticulous explanation of the food consumed by the cannibals:
	www.victorianweb.org /courses/nonfiction/montaigne/porter2.html (317 words)

	Montaigne Paper by Schmitter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Despite Popkin's insistence that Montaigne be recognized as a thinker whose contributions to the history of skepticism cannot be exaggerated, interpreters sometimes miss what is important about the Apology and what sets it apart from other expressions of classical Pyrrhonism.
		For Montaigne's disapproval of ancient authors who prize learning and human knowledge beyond its worth, see pages 541-3.
		See Popkin's discussion of this and other aspects of Montaigne's arguments against the solvency of reason, in The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, 51-3, and Copenhaver and Schmitt, Renaissance Philosophy, 257-8.
	www.cas.usf.edu /philosophy/classnotes/schmitterpapermontaigne.htm (7796 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM, SEIGNEUR DE [Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de], 1533-92, French essayist.
		After seven years at the Collège de Guyenne in Bordeaux, he studied for the law, held a magistracy until 1570, and was (1581-85) mayor of Bordeaux.
		To this group belongs the essay "On Friendship," which commemorates Montaigne's association with Étienne de La Boétie.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Montaign&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (443 words)

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