Talk:Michel de Montaigne

message: he was jewish
: His mother was of Jewish origin, but he himself clearly was a Catholic. Mjklin 07:37, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: religion

message: It says that Montaigne went to study law at Toulouse in 1539...he was six years old then? (if he was born in 1533).
Was he actually a child prodigy or is this a typo? 
65.95.1.85 22:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date correction? 

message: My uncle, a professor, told me that this person was not a descendant of spanish jews but of portuguese jews. he is studied in english, spanish, french and portuguese. says hgis mother was loppes or lopes. does anyone know if this is true or have anymore information about that? thank you.
--Lusitano Transmontano 00:01, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish jew or portuguese jew? 

message: just citing an influence is not the most appropriate if we cannot trace the link back from them... There is no link on Montaigne in Rousseau's article fro instance..
Daedalus2100 19:00, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rousseau and Nietzsche 

message: I think it would be interesting to highlight that besides Latin, Motaigne's mother tongue was Gascon; this is important since French (langue de Oi) was his third tongue, being this essential to understand the importance of his writtings. I would also add that while in Rome his literary production is on the local language.
--195.252.86.16 21:41, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: language

message: I think some more quotes should be included.  "It is putting a high value on opinions to burn men on their account", criticizing the Inquisition.  And isn't "All things come to him who knows how to wait" from the Essays also?
CharlesTheBold (talk) 02:16, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  more quotes 

message: The article currently states that Montaigne served as Mayor of Bordeaux from 1581 to 1585, and implies that that period was a single term of office. I'm afraid that I have to rely on fallible memory here, not having my copy of the Essays to hand, but I am sure that Montaigne mentions therein that he was elected for two successive terms - expressing some surprise that the citizens had been satisfied enough with him to ask him to serve a second term.
Would someone with source access please spare a moment to check that my memory is not faulty, and amend the article to clarify the situation if necessary? --Kay Dekker (talk) 20:34, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mayorship of Bordeaux. 

message: It is said that "the Bordeaux Tourist Office says that Montaigne is buried at the Musée Aquitaine, Faculté des Lettres, Université Bordeaux 3 Michel de Montaigne, Pessac. His heart is preserved in the parish church of Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne." I'm afraid Musée d'Aquitaine and Université Bordeaux 3 are different locations in different cities (the museum is in downtown Bordeaux whereas the university is in Pessac, fr.wikipedia.org says so too). Unfortunately french wiki doesn't say where he is currently buried. Addden (talk) 07:15, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of his grave 

message: This article fails to even mention in passing Etienne de la Boétie, one of the most-important people in Montaigne's life! Good grief. The article also needs a list of Montaigne's most-important/popular essays. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 12:37, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I love this 154.117.104.151 (talk) 06:33, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

text: You are saying the truth go on 154.117.104.151 (talk) 06:35, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Etienne de la Boétie

message: What is the purpose of this section? Does it belong on the English page for Montaigne? Inoculatedcities (talk) 03:04, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Littérature secondaire : la critique 

message: Are we the first to call him "Lord"? If so, we shouldn't do it -- certainly not in the first sentence. We should follow the usual style of encyclopedias, unless there's a strong reason to differ. Others call him "Michel de Montaigne" or "Michel Eyquem de Montaigne", no Lord, no Seigneur. His greatness is as a writer, not as a petty landowner. Andrew Dalby 17:18, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this apparently was just taken care of by someone today. However, as far as I can check, the article now says that his grand-father and his father were Lords of Montaigne, but it does not clarify if Michel de Montaigne himself inherited the title or not. If he did, the article should at least state the fact somewhere in the "Life" section. warshytalk 16:04, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

text: Interesting. Thanks. In any case, since the article had already translated the title for his great-grandfather and father, I just added that he also inherited it in the proper section. warshytalk 17:06, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Lord" 

message: Are you sure he was a Roman Catholic? I am sure that I heard the programme "In Our Time" on April 25 2013 describe him as an atheist  - although I could be wrong. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 08:39, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: What was his religion?

message: What the programme In Our Time on April 25 2013 definitely did say was that he had an interest in cannibals  - this should go in the article. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 08:42, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Interest in cannibalism

message: It used to be mentioned somewhere in the articles about French, now everything I can find is this: http://monsu.desiderio.free.fr/jardin/chataigne.html (¶ 5.), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Circeus#poigne -- the ɛ is spelling pronunciation, it used  to be homophonous with simple la monta(i)gne "the mountain".176.221.120.207 (talk) 00:44, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The original pronunciation of the surname 

message: Someone has somewhat recently made this page "Part of a series on Catholic philosophy," and included a template at the bottom of the page about Catholic philosophy. This is wildly misleading, and I hope will be removed. Was Montaigne Catholic? Yes. Was he a philosopher? Sure. Does that mean he was doing specifically Catholic philosophy? No.
If you wanted to debate the religious character of his philosophy or the impact it has had on Catholic thinking, we could do that. But even more significant, I think, is the fact that his purported role in Catholic philosophy is not what he is known for, and the template and inclusion in a series indicate otherwise. Of the other categories listed at the bottom of the page, the ones that would make the most since to emphasize include French essayists, Early Modern Philosophers, Skeptics, French Renaissance Humanists, and maybe French Philosophers.
Perhaps the person who made this change is trying to make up for the Catholic Church putting Montaigne's book on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
75.73.165.234 (talk) 07:46, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic philosophy 

message: In the section "Child education", there were citations at the end of a sentence, without a space before the next sentence. This meant a run-on "word" which would not be broken between lines; so the whole thing would go to the next line; which didn't look right. I fixed this. Said section also needs citations for verification. Solomonfromfinland (talk) 03:49, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education 

message: Section in article 216.186.213.249 (talk) 16:48, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Judith N. Shklar 216.186.213.249 (talk) 16:49, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influenced