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Michel de Montaigne
Birth: 2-28
Death: 9-23
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French writer whose essays established a new literary form. In his essays, he wrote one of the most captivating and intimate self-portraits ever given, on a par with Augustine’s and Rousseau’s.
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French writer whose essays established a new literary form. In his essays, he wrote one of the most captivating and intimate self-portraits ever given, on a par with Augustine’s and Rousseau’s.
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