Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (28 February 1533 — 13 September 1592) was a French Renaissance man, statesman, and writer. He was a court official in the late Valois-Angoulême period of the Kingdom of France. Montaigne was the inventor of essay-writing and was one of the most important philosophers of the French Renaissance.

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Category:1533 births
Category:1592 deaths
Category:French essayists
Category:Writers from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Category:Renaissance
Category:French philosophers
Category:People from Dordogne