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Michel de Montaigne
1533–1592
A French Renaissance writer and thinker, he turned self-examination into an art and helped invent the personal essay. His Essays remain strikingly modern for their honesty, curiosity, and skepticism.
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 04
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 01
by Michel de Montaigne
Quotes and Images From The Works of Michel De Montaigne
by Michel de Montaigne
The journal of Montaigne's travels in Italy by way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, Volume 3 (of 3)
by Michel de Montaigne
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
by Michel de Montaigne, Immanuel Kant, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Giuseppe Mazzini, Ernest Renan, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Friedrich Schiller
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 19
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 18
by Michel de Montaigne
Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume III
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12
by Michel de Montaigne
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Michel De Montaigne
by Michel de Montaigne
The journal of Montaigne's travels in Italy by way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, Volume 2 (of 3)
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 08
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 10
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 09
by Michel de Montaigne
Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Montaigne
by Michel de Montaigne
The journal of Montaigne's travels in Italy by way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, Volume 1 (of 3)
by Michel de Montaigne
Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume IV
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 02
by Michel de Montaigne
Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume I
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 11
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 14
by Michel de Montaigne
Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume II
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 13
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 03
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 06
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 05
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 07
by Michel de Montaigne
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 17
by Michel de Montaigne
Tutkielmia: Valikoima
by Michel de Montaigne
About the author
Born in 1533 at the family estate near Bordeaux, Michel de Montaigne was trained in the classics from an early age and later studied law. He served as a magistrate in the Bordeaux Parlement and also spent time in public life as mayor of Bordeaux.
He is best known for the Essais, first published in 1580 and expanded in later editions. In these pieces, he used his own thoughts, habits, fears, and contradictions as material, creating a new literary form that was intimate, questioning, and deeply human.
Montaigne lived through the turbulence of the French Wars of Religion, and his writing often reflects a distrust of certainty and a sympathy for human weakness. He died in 1592, but his work has continued to shape literature, philosophy, and the way writers speak personally on the page.