Montaigne
[ mon-teyn; French mawn-ten-yuh ]
/ mɒnˈteɪn; French mɔ̃ˈtɛn yə /
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noun
Mi·chel Ey·quem [mee-shel e-kem], /miˈʃɛl ɛˈkɛm/, Seigneur de, 1533–92, French essayist.
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Montaigne
/ (French mɔ̃tɛɲ) /
noun
Michel Eyquem de (miʃɛl ikɛm də). 1533–92, French writer. His life's work, the Essays (begun in 1571), established the essay as a literary genre and record the evolution of his moral ideas
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