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Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne ( ;"Montaigne". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotesHis anecdotes are 'casual' only in appearance; Montaigne writes: 'Neither my anecdotes nor my quotations are always employed simply as examples, for authority, or for ornament...They often carry, off the subject under discussion, the seed of a richer and more daring matter, and they resonate obliquely with a more delicate tone,' Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Pléiade, Paris (ed. A. Thibaudet) 1937, Bk. 1, ch. 40, p. 252 (tr. Charles Rosen) and autobiography with intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous Western writers; his massive volume Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written.

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Mongtʻenyu susangnok / Mongtʻenyu ; Yi Ka-hyŏng yŏk
몽테뉴隧想錄 / 몽테뉴 ; 李佳炯譯
Uniform title: Les essais de Michel Montaigne. Korean
by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Sŏul : Kŭmsŏng Chʻulpʻansa, 1989
서울 : 金星出版社, 1989
 
 
Uniform title: Essais. English
by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
London : printed for B. and B. Barker, G. Strahan, S. Ballard, D. Browne, C. Hitch [and 12 others in London], 1743
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Uniform title: Essais. English
by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, c1958
 
 
 
by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
London : printed for J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst, T. Davies, T. Payne, J.P. and C. Rivington, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Caston, J. Robson, W. Ginger, T. Evans, and E. Johnston, 1776
 
 
Uniform title: Essais. English
by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
London : printed for S. and E. Ballard, J. Clarke, D. Browne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes [and 12 others in London], 1759
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