फ्रेंच लेखक को आधुनिक निबंध (1533-1592) के उत्प्रेरक के रूप में माना जाता है

montaigne's Usage Examples:

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592), French essayist, was born, as he himself tells us, between eleven o'clock and noon on the 28th of February 1533.

Thus he tells us that Montaigne is the first French author whom an English gentleman is ashamed not to have read.

Montaigne said of him,"I give the palm to Jacques Amyot over all our French writers, not only for the simplicity and purity of his language in which he surpasses all others, nor for his constancy to so long an undertaking, nor for his profound learning.

Montaigne 2 applies to him the phrase of Horace: "Liquidus puroque simillimus amni."

But the gossip, not discouraged by Terence, lived and throve; it crops up in Cicero and Quintilian, and the ascription of the plays to Scipio had the honour to be accepted by Montaigne and rejected by Diderot.

But he was not a blind follower of the system; he wished for unlimited freedom of trade in many,cases; and he was in advance of his more eminent contemporary Montaigne in perceiving that the gain of one nation is not necessarily the loss of another.

Ideas as well as learning are largely Montaigne's.

de Montaigne, P. Charron.

And the doctrine found acceptance among some whom it enabled to get rid of the difficulties raised by Montaigne and those who allowed more difference between animal and animal than between the higher animals and man.

They are also the direct antitheses to the scepticism of Montaigne and Pascal, to the materialism of Gassendi and Hobbes, and to the superstitious anthropomorphism which defaced the reawakening sciences of nature.

montaigne's Meaning':

French writer regarded as the originator of the modern essay (1533-1592