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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[Manchester] Manchester University Press 1954
3d ed.

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Genève : Paris : Librairie Slatkine ; Librairie Champion, 1976
Reproduction photographique de l'édition originale de 1580 avec une introduction et des notes sur les modifications apportées ultérieurement au texte en 1582, 1587, 1588 et sur l'exemplaire de Bordeaux /

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
[Paris] : [A. Michel], 1963

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Genève ; Paris : Editions Slatkine, 1987

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
London : New York : Dent ; Dutton, 1910

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Paris : Société les Belles Lettres, 1948

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
[Paris] : Gallimard, 1962

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Paris, Éditions du Seuil 1951

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
[Paris] : Gallimard, 1976

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press 1957

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Paris, Editions du Seuil 1951

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
New York : Heritage Press, 1946

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
New York, The Modern library 1933
1st Modern library ed.

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Princeton, N. J. : Van Nostrand, 1943

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Paris, Société les Belles Lettres, 1948

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
New York, Modern Library 1949
[1st Modern Library ed.]

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by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
London : Printed for T. Basset ... and M. Gilliflower and W. Hensman ..., 1685

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