Michel de montaigne

"We are probably in the presence of Michel de Montaigne," the museum's director, Laurent Vedrine, said. "We need to check."

Montaigne’s essays chart the course of twenty years of self-investigation, Jane Kramer writes.

As disease and war ravaged the nation, he left town and invented the essay.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. ~ Michel de Montaigne

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Translation of: Montaigne: un biographie politique. A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinker One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau and stoically detaching himself from his violent times? Philippe Desan overturns this long standing myth by showing…