Montaigne
[mon-teyn; French mawn-ten-yuh]
- Mi·chel Ey·quem [mee-shel e-kem] /miˈʃɛl ɛˈkɛm/, Seigneur de,1533–92, French essayist.
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Examples from the Web for montaigne
Contemporary Examples
She gives no nods to the Humanists, like Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Erasmus, or Descartes.
Montaigne swore by it and quoted it extensively in his Essays.
Historical Examples
Like Montaigne and his sausage, I had now something to complain of, and I was happy.
Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
What Montaigne said of greatness, therefore, Khalid must have said of success.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
Your anecdotes from Ad-Damiry and your quotations from Montaigne shall not help you.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
And to pour out all myself as old Montaigne, I wish all this to be known.'
James BoswellWilliam Keith Leask
He says things like Defoe, like Montaigne, like Rochefoucauld.
My Contemporaries In FictionDavid Christie Murray
Montaigne
- 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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