Michel de Montaigne committed every sin we complain about in today's memoirists and bloggers, 400 years ago. By Laura Miller. Published October 10, 2010 11:01PM (EDT) ...

Montaigne: his free-ranging essays were almost scandalous in their day. Étienne Dumonstier/Wikimedia Commons. When Michel de Montaigne retired to his family estate in 1572, aged 38, he tells us ...

Michel de Montaigne, first and greatest writer of 'essays', can cure you of broken-resolution blues. Sarah Bakewell shares his advice. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

For many critics, Montaigne was, if not clearly a coward, less than a hero: Imagine if Mayor Bill De Blasio, learning that New York City had been struck by the coronavirus while he was vacationing ...

The ‘Essays’ of Michel de Montaigne first appeared in 1580, in a sloppily typeset printing of a few hundred copies. Later editions would achieve him a modest renown during his lifetime (1533 ...

The bust of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) is displayed at the Bibliothèque in Bordeaux, as part of an exhibition and events through the city dedicated to the former mayor.

Read: Michel de Montaigne, father of jazz. The longer we live, the more places we accumulate that we will never revisit. For instance, the army camp in central China where I spent a year at ages ...

Autobiography of Montaigne. By Marvin Lowenthal; Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. $3.50. That urbane traveller and careful scholar, Marvin Lowenthal, has compiled a book, “The Autobiography of ...