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  2. Essays (Montaigne) - Wikipedia

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    The official portrait of former French president François Mitterrand pictured him facing the camera, holding an open copy of the Essays in his hands. [12] English journalist and politician J. M. Robertson argued that Montaigne's essays had a profound influence on the plays of William Shakespeare, citing their similarities in language, themes ...

  3. Essays (Montaigne) - Bordeaux copy - Wikipedia

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    Montaigne published the first two volumes of his Essais in 1580, printed by Simon Millanges [] in Bordeaux. [4] The books' success (1582 - a re-edition published in Bordeaux; [5] a possible re-edition published in Rouen before 1584 [6] and in 1587 a re-edition published in Paris [7]) attracted the interest of the Paris publisher Abel L'Angelier [], who, in 1588, published a new modified and ...

  4. Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms of Michel Eyquem, Lord of Montaigne. Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne (/ m ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n / mon-TAYN; [4] French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; Middle French: [miˈʃɛl ejˈkɛm də mõnˈtaɲə]; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592 [5]), commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance.

  5. Of Cannibals - Wikipedia

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    Of Cannibals (Des Cannibales), written circa 1580, is an essay, one of those in the collection Essays, by Michel de Montaigne, describing the ceremonies of the Tupinambá people in Brazil. In particular, he reported about how the group ceremoniously ate the bodies of their dead enemies as a matter of honor.

  6. French moralists - Wikipedia

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    The tradition begins with the Essais of Michel de Montaigne (1580), but its heyday was the late 17th century. [ 1 ] Although the moralists wrote essays and pen-portraits , their preferred genre was the maxim.

  7. List of dialects of English - Wikipedia

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    Many of these countries, while retaining strong British English or American English influences, have developed their own unique dialects, which include Indian English and Philippine English. Chief among other native English dialects are Canadian English and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in the number of native speakers. [4]

  8. File:Montaigne - Essais, Éd de Bordeaux, 1.djvu - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on da.wikipedia.org Essay; Usage on fr.wikisource.org Essais/Au lecteur « PARDON AMOUR, pardon, ô Seigneur je te voue »

  9. Category:Essays by Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia

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