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Michel de Montaigne  

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  • Michel de Montaigne was a leading writer of the French Renaissance. Montaigne was the originator and chief popu-larizer of the essay as a self-conscious literary form; his most important work, his collected Essais, was tremendously influential in shaping Western thought and letters for the last 400 years. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism; Montaigne, Michel de (1533–1592)]

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