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Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.
Francine Prose

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MONTAIGNE

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PRONUNCIATION OF MONTAIGNE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONTAIGNE

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Montaigne is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MONTAIGNE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual exercises with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers all over the world, including René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, and possibly on the later works of William Shakespeare. In his own time, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that, 'I am myself the matter of my book', was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent.

Definition of Montaigne in the English dictionary

The definition of Montaigne in the dictionary is Michel Eyquem de. 1533–92, French writer. His life's work, the Essays, established the essay as a literary genre and record the evolution of his moral ideas.

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Synonyms and antonyms of Montaigne in the English dictionary of synonyms

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مونتين
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Montaigne

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2 QUOTES WITH «MONTAIGNE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Montaigne.
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Francine Prose
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.
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Robert Sheckley
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONTAIGNE»

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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty ...
'Bakewell writes with verve. This is an intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world' Daily Telegraph 'Splendidly conceived and exquisitely written.
Sarah Bakewell, 2011
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The Complete Essays
Above all, Montaigne studied himself to find his own inner nature and that of humanity. The Essays are among the most idiosyncratic and personal works in all literature.
Michel Montaigne, 2004
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Montaigne
Friedrich considers the Montaigne of the Essays on of the first "moralists" in the French sense of the term, recording with anthropological fervor and in fresh, informal language the full spectrum of human thought and commerce as he saw it.
Hugo Friedrich, Philippe Desan, 1991
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An Apology for Raymond Sebond
Wise, perceptive and remarkably informed, this is one of the true masterpieces of the essay form.
Michel Montaigne, 2006
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Montaigne in Motion
His classic work, Montaigne in Motion, is a subtly conceived and elegantly written study of the Essais of Montaigne, whose deceptively plainspoken meditations have entranced readers and stimulated philosophers since their first publication ...
Jean Starobinski, 1985
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Montaigne & Melancholy: The Wisdom of the Essays
His balanced temperament, sanguine and melancholic, promised genius but threatened madness. When he started his Essays, Montaigne was upset by an attack of melancholy humor: He became temperamental and unbalanced.
Michael Andrew Screech, 2000
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Essaying Montaigne: A Study of the Renaissance Institution ...
O’Neill’s reading of the Essays strives to be faithful to the phenomenology of their embodied practices of reading-to-write-to re-read and re-write.
John O'Neill, 2001
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The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne
This volume explores the range of Montaigne's philosophy and its social and intellectual contexts.
Ullrich Langer, 2005
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On Solitude
They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Michel de Montaigne, 2009
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Montaigne's Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais
Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) is principally known today as a literary figure--the inventor of the modern essay and the pioneer of autobiographical self-exploration who retired from politics in midlife to write his private, philosophical, ...
Biancamaria Fontana, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONTAIGNE»

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Several venues were discussed but Young favored using the Montaigne Center at Lamar University. Young estimated the cost of the ceremony ... «Your Houston News, Jul 15»
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Pregnant Kim Kardashian opts for daring low-cut top as she shops in …
And Kim Kardashian looked glamorous as ever when she hit the designer boutiques on Paris' ultra expensive Avenue Montaigne on Tuesday ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Flagler Live-Blogs Harper Lee's “Go Set a Watchman,” Chapter 3 …
More likely it was Montaigne or Chekhov. “They never fail you,” he said last year. Not many of us are finding it easy to say the same about Lee. «FlaglerLive.com, Jul 15»
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Christian Dior Opens Canadian Flagship Boutique
The shops were designed by the architect Peter Marino, who is also behind the historical Dior house on Avenue Montaigne in Paris. Nothing ... «The Fashion Spot, Jul 15»
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE | JULY 21, 2015
... Casas who protested the brutality of the conquistadors, French humanist Michel de Montaigne who championed the rights of native peoples, ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Jul 15»
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The search for solitude in an internet of things
Solitude may be enjoyed “in the midst of cities and the courts of kings”, as French philosopher Montaigne observed in the 16th century – but, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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The Weekend Catch-Up: Men's Shows, Jason Wu's Muses, and …
Raf Simons cast her in his latest Couture show after discovering her while she was shopping in his Avenue Montaigne boutique. Read all about ... «Style.com, Jul 15»
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The Disturbing Pseudo-Intellectualism of China's Xi Jinping
By reading Montaigne, La Fontaine, Molière, Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas, fils, ... «The Diplomat, Jul 15»
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Meet Raf Simons' New Dior Muse
... a fateful day at the label's Avenue Montaigne boutique led to her career breakthrough. While shopping with her agent after a canceled photo ... «Style.com, Jul 15»
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Look Inside Dior's First Canadian Store
A riff on Marino's arty design at the brand's Paris flagship on Avenue Montaigne, the new, north-of-the-border location mixes Dior's accessories ... «Architectural Digest, Jul 15»

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