Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay. In his main work, the Essays, unprecedented in its candidness and personal flavor, he takes mankind and especially himself as the object of study. He was a skeptic and a humanist.

External links

• {{gutenberg author|id=Michel_de_Montaigne|name=Michel de Montaigne}}
• The Charles Cotton translation of some of Montaigne's essays:
• plain text version by Project Gutenberg
• HTML version at the University of Adelaide
• searchable HTML version at Oregon State University
• The complete, searchable text of the Villey-Saulnier edition from the ARFTL project at the University of Chicago (French)
• Timeline and links
• The Montaigne Studies Journal at the University of Chicago
• Photos of his chateau, his personal belongings, and his grave
• A German resource: http://www.michel-montaigne.de
• Société des Amis de Montaigne (French)
• Biographie et citations de Montaigne (French)
• Biography, Analysis (in French)