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As in all of his essays, Montaigne eloquently employed many references and quotes from classical Greek and Roman authors, especially Lucretius. Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked the strong feelings of romantic love as being detrimental to freedom. One of his quotations is: "Marriage is like a cage ...
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.
The Bordeaux copy of the Essays is a 1588 edition of Michel de Montaigne's Essais held by the Bibliothèque municipale de Bordeaux. [1]The book contains about 1300 manuscript corrections and annotations made by Montaigne between the summer of 1588 and the 13 September 1592 (date of his death).
On Solitude - Michel de Montaigne 65. On Power - William Shakespeare 66. Of the Abuse of Words - John Locke 67. Consolation in the Face of Death - Samuel Johnson 68. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant 69. The Executioner - Joseph de Maistre 70. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas de Quincey 71.
Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie (French: [etjɛn də la bɔesi] ⓘ, also or ; [1] Occitan: Esteve de La Boetiá; 1 November 1530 – 18 August 1563) was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne.
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. These were short abstract statements devoid of context, often containing paradoxes and always designed to shock or surprise. The moralists ...
In the summer of 2012, France Inter broadcast Un été avec Montaigne (lit. ' A summer with Montaigne '), a radio programme in 40 episodes with analyses of Michel de Montaigne's Essays. The series was written by the literature professor Antoine Compagnon of the Collège de France.
The Prix Montaigne de Bordeaux is a literary prize created in 2003 by the Bordeaux Wine Academy and the city of Bordeaux. It is attributed to a work that represents the values of humanism , tolerance and liberty that were dear to writer and philosopher Michel de Montaigne , who was Bordeaux's mayor from 1581 to 1585.