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Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia
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.

Michel de Montaigne - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Montaigne (1533–1592) came from a rich bourgeois family that acquired nobility after his father fought in Italy in the army of King Francis I of France; he came back with the firm intention of bringing refined Italian culture to France. He decorated his Périgord castle in the style of an ancient Roman villa.

Michel de Montaigne | French Renaissance Humanist & Essayist ...
Michel de Montaigne was a French writer whose Essais (Essays) established a new literary form. In his Essays he wrote one of the most captivating and intimate self-portraits ever given, on a par with Augustine’s and Rousseau’s. Living, as he did, in the second half of the 16th century, Montaigne.

Montaigne (musician) - Wikipedia
Jessica Alyssa Cerro (born 14 August 1995), better known as Montaigne, is an Australian musician, singer, and Twitch streamer. Their [ a ] debut album, Glorious Heights , was released in August 2016 and peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Albums Chart .

Montaigne, Michel de | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth century French essayist, is one of the most renowned literary and philosophical figures of the late Renaissance. The one book he wrote, Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne, is not a traditional work of philosophy. Having begun work on it around 1572, he published the first edition in 1580.

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne - Encyclopedia Britannica
Montaigne applies and illustrates his ideas concerning the independence and freedom of the self and the importance of social and intellectual intercourse in all his writings and in particular in his essay on the education of children.

Michel de Montaigne summary | Britannica
Michel de Montaigne, (born Feb. 28, 1533, Château de Montaigne, near Bordeaux, France—died Sept. 23, 1592, Château de Montaigne), French courtier and author. Born into the minor nobility, Montaigne received an excellent Classical education (speaking only Latin up to age 6) before studying law and serving as counselor at the Bordeaux Parliament.