As disease and war ravaged the nation, he left town and invented the essay. Michel de MontaigneCredit...Getty Images Supported by By Robert Zaretsky Mr. Zaretsky is a historian and author. In the ...
When I became a dedicated reader of the 16th-century French writer Montaigne, in 2005, I was new to writing and relatively new to motherhood, with a 3-year-old and a newborn, and about to publish my ...
Perhaps you've never heard of Montaigne, an Australian art-pop artist who's released a couple of albums and who represented her homeland at the Eurovision Song Contest last year. If that's the case, ...
LIKE MANY people, as he grew older Michel de Montaigne paid close attention to the workings of his body. He began to feel the cold in his bones; his servants brought him clothes at night “to warm my ...