Montaigne

[mon-teyn; French mawn-ten-yuh]

noun

Mi·chel Ey·quem [mee-shel e-kem] /miˈʃɛl ɛˈkɛm/, Seigneur de,1533–92, French essayist.

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Contemporary Examples of montaigne

She gives no nods to the Humanists, like Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Erasmus, or Descartes.
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Montaigne swore by it and quoted it extensively in his Essays.
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Historical Examples of montaigne

Like Montaigne and his sausage, I had now something to complain of, and I was happy.
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Maria Edgeworth
What Montaigne said of greatness, therefore, Khalid must have said of success.
The Book of Khalid
Ameen Rihani
Your anecdotes from Ad-Damiry and your quotations from Montaigne shall not help you.
The Book of Khalid
Ameen Rihani
And to pour out all myself as old Montaigne, I wish all this to be known.'
James Boswell
William Keith Leask
He says things like Defoe, like Montaigne, like Rochefoucauld.
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David Christie Murray

British Dictionary definitions for montaigne

Montaigne

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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