Montaigne

[mon-teyn; Fr. mawn-ten-y^uh]

noun

Mi·chel Ey·quem

[mee-shel e-kem] , Seigneur de, 1533–92, French essayist.

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Montaigne (French mɔ̃tɛɲ)

—n
	Michel Eyquem de (miʃɛl ikɛm də). 1533--92, French writer. His life's work, the Essays (begun in 1571), established the essay as a literary genre and record the evolution of his moral ideas

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