| 单词 | Montaigne |
| 例句 | Montaigne’s thinking here derives from his reading of Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Montaigne had already asked, ‘How many things are there which we call miraculous or contrary to Nature? All men and nations do that according to the measure of their ignorance.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nicholas thought the earth was a heavenly body which from a distance would shine like a star, an idea which caught Montaigne’s attention. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the Essays Montaigne was making a fundamental claim about our knowledge of the world, that knowledge is always subjective, personal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Montaigne, too, was right—right to think that the men and women of his day were hopelessly fallible when it came to understanding the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What is important for our immediate purposes is the way in which his discussion echoes through the later literature on the law of nature, for of course Montaigne was read by all the educated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All three—Hobbes, Digby and Charleton—had a great deal of reading in common, reading which surely included Montaigne, Galileo and Bacon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Montaigne called these various branches of knowledge ‘sciences’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But when Montaigne used the word it meant an assay or a test. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like Clavius, we test our knowledge by doing things with it, which is the fundamental difference between our knowledge and most of the sciences of Montaigne’s day. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the end, Montaigne was unable to publish The Discourse because it had already been published by Protestant rebels and condemned as seditious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We only need to turn to the doctors of Montaigne’s day for a cautionary example. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The sources of Montaigne’s scepticism are not difficult to identify. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What matters for present purposes is Montaigne’s rejection not of the practical knowledge, of wine-making and bread-baking, of his day, but of the learned knowledge, of medicine, geography, astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nor is the frequent referral to Indian examples in the writings of Montaigne, Locke, Voltaire, Jefferson, Franklin, and Thomas Paine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Part of the great transformation that we know as the Scientific Revolution, a transformation which began in earnest the year after Montaigne retired to his library, consisted in improving our senses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They explain the puzzle that we still cannot make a fistful bigger than a fist, or a stride longer than our legs can stretch, but that we can now know more than Montaigne could know. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Montaigne, although his love for his friend knew no limits, was never taken in by it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This is my situation: writing these pages, surrounded in the room I am in by volumes of Montaigne and Shakespeare and Lawrence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As Montaigne put it in 1580, ‘the beliefs, judgements and opinions of men...have their cycles, seasons, births and deaths, every bit as much as cabbages do.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After all, Montaigne never gave an example of heavenly inspiration, of divine intervention, without hedging it about with doubts and difficulties. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Readers of Montaigne are—and always have been—sharply divided between those who think his protestations of Catholic orthodoxy were genuine, and those who think they were merely concessions to the censor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Chapter 17 ends the book by looking at Montaigne’s scepticism and asking whether we are entitled to claim that we know more than he did. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Montaigne was impatient with such an argument: did they try to sail East and end up going West? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Here the fundamental distinction between facts and explanations, which goes back to Montaigne and beyond, is restated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the course of this dispute, and with the example of Montaigne to hand, Arnauld reinvented the idea of the fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Human beings, Montaigne argued, are imperfect, and so human knowledge is necessarily unreliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Montaigne was testing himself, exploring himself, studying himself, trying to make sense of himself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the Ptolemaic astronomers of Montaigne’s day were very different from the Hippocratic doctors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They served as a passage between Montaigne’s world, a world of belief and misplaced conviction, and our world, the world of reliable and effective knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Evidently Montaigne’s argument had to be expressed with exquisite care. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It was written by a man named Montaigne, who was a soldier. But he grew tired of being a soldier and spent his time studying and writing. He also liked to walk on country roads.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Montaigne found no happiness in his new life, and so he turned to writing as a form of therapy, a way of keeping himself company. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Our claims to knowledge, Montaigne said, are generally misconceived because we will not acknowledge our limits as human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In Montaigne’s case this resulted in a peculiar emphasis on the subjectivity of what we know, its dependence on our personal experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Since Sebond had harnessed faith and reason together, Montaigne’s critique set out to undermine faith by showing that all claims to knowledge are overstated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1571 Montaigne retired from his professional life as a judge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The subjects we would now call ‘science’ formed, in the sixteenth century, part of philosophy, so Montaigne’s ‘Apology’ is, among other things, an attack on the science of his day. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I think Montaigne summed it up very well when he wrote that ‘we all call barbarous, things that are contrary to our own habits.’” How a French Novelist Turns the Tables on History 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Montaigne man … Cohen is clearly a descendant of the great French essayist. Attention!: A (Short) History by Joshua Cohen – review 2013-06-21T10:00:01Z About 30 years ago, she was in Hungary, looking for something to read during a train ride, when she picked up a copy of Montaigne’s essays. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z It is well known that Gonzalo's utopian vision in The Tempest is lifted from Florio's translation of Montaigne's essay "Of Cannibals". Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z Our knowledge of changes made to the quartos, as well as Florio's treatment of Boccaccio and Montaigne, suggests that there is a strong chance that they were. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z "It is genuinely exciting to be creative director of one of the few remaining independent houses on Avenue Montaigne," the hub of Parisian luxury, the statement quoted Deacon as saying. Ungaro hires Deacon as creative director 2010-05-25T20:45:00Z The "art" of conversing for Montaigne is in fact the skill of being a good listener; in one essay he likens the skilled listener to a detective. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Montaigne's essay is, at once, uniquely his voice and one of the great universal statements – an inspiration for all those struggling to create a better world. Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z The question summed up Montaigne's long-held conviction that we can never really plumb the inner life of others, be they cats or human beings. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z While Montaigne took the side of the Protestant leader Henri de Navarre, his heart was in neither religious dogma nor professional politics. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z The plans are taking shape at the headquarters of Mr. Pinault’s investment group, Artemis, in a 19th-century mansion off the Avenue Montaigne that also mixes classic architecture with contemporary art. Plans Take Shape for François Pinault Museum in Paris 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z French scholars have been debating what precisely Montaigne meant by essai for going on half a millennium, and I don’t pretend to be qualified to intervene in that discussion. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The pandemic forced the cancellation of last year’s event and this year prevented Australian singer Montaigne from flying to Rotterdam. Eurovision Song Contest returns despite coronavirus pandemic 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Montaigne is still taking part, but by sending in a recorded live performance. Eurovision Song Contest returns despite coronavirus pandemic 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Her handsome new “dream boss,” Tyler Montaigne, lives in a monument to decorating perfection somewhere in Santa Monica Canyon. Review: In ‘Oh! You Pretty Things,’ Shanna Mahin Dishes on Hollywood Foibles 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Australia’s act, Montaigne, is the only performer not attending the event in Rotterdam because of coronavirus restrictions. Eurovision Song Contest starts with first semifinal 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z It is at the Place de la Madeleine, not at the end of Avenue Montaigne. Exploring the France That Josephine Baker Loved 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Peacock, Meredith and Montaigne were all self-educated, in the way you describe yourself. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Modesty encapsulates Montaigne's idea of civility, but his version little resembles the celebrated account of civility given by the sociologist Norbert Elias in The Civilising Process. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Brontë, like Woolf and Montaigne, was not amazed by grief, or offended by it. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z Instead, he was stationed at 30 Avenue Montaigne, the more staid Dior line for its customers who are uninterested in a superskinny silhouette. Alexandre Mattiussi, the Designer of the Label Ami, Creates Buzz During Paris Men’s Fashion Week 2014-02-19T22:13:39Z If I were to recast Montaigne's aperçu it would be thus: "Mistrust a man who takes games too seriously; it means he may be incapable of taking life seriously enough." 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Throughout “The Practicing Stoic,” Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z At Dior, there was a vitrine with a dollhouse-size model of the salon on the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. | Kate Young’s Golden Globes Look for Emilia Clarke 2014-01-14T00:00:51Z What if, however, King James had Montaigne in mind instead? The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z His was an age of hierarchy, in which inequalities of rank seemed to separate seigneurs and servants into separate species, and Montaigne is not free of this attitude; nonetheless, he is curious. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z The next internship was at the haute couture atelier of Christian Dior on the Avenue Montaigne. How the Designer of Milly Broke Free 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z I am taping the Montaigne dictum — "Let life be its own reward" — over all my work spaces. While the book editor's out, Seattle book news keeps rolling 2011-03-18T19:38:07Z For Montaigne, such dreams are now a thing of the past. Second Time Lucky? Eurovision Hopefuls Try Again. 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Montaigne was born the year Holbein painted The Ambassadors. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z It’s said that even a century and a half after Montaigne’s death, when the marquis d’Argenson subtitled a book with that word, Essays, he was shouted down for impertinence. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet just as Montaigne kept playing with his enigmatic cat, so too a lack of mutual understanding shouldn't keep us from engaging with others; we want to get something done together. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z And the novel is brightly studded with allusions not just to “Hamlet” but also to “Macbeth,” “Lolita,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” Montaigne’s essays, Dante, Nietzsche and Kafka. Review: ‘Nutshell,’ a Tale Told by a Baby-to-Be (or Not-to-Be) 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Edward King in the Sunday Times was equally positive: "Passionately written and full to bursting with digressions and anecdotes, Frampton's book does an excellent job of bringing Montaigne and his historical context to life." Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011-02-19T00:05:27Z The standard view has been that this represents Shakespeare's borrowing from Montaigne; the alternative is that it might represent Florio borrowing from himself. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z Grudé gets credit for being one of the first people to realize that Montaigne was Montaigne. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Four hundred years earlier, in his essay “Of Custom,” Montaigne remembered a friend using the exact same bit. I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z After La Boétie's early death, Montaigne continued to champion his friend's alternative idea of building political engagement from the ground up, based on ordinary cooperation in a community. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z And of course “The Complete Essays of Montaigne.” Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Even Jason Epstein, Mr. Vidal’s longtime editor at Random House, once admitted that he preferred the essays to the novels, calling Mr. Vidal “an American version of Montaigne.” Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z The Weinstein Company “No man is a hero to his own valet,” said Montaigne. At Your Service: 10 Great TV and Movie Butlers 2013-08-19T09:45:46Z Montaigne motioned that “the distinctive mark of the essay is its tentativeness, its disavowal of closed, systematic ways of thinking.” Review | In the loopily expansive ‘Figure It Out,’ Wayne Koestenbaum ponders everything from Robert Rauschenberg’s shoes to the notion of the line 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Thompson's previous film, released in the United States as "Avenue Montaigne," was a modest art-house hit in 2007, and her new "Change of Plans" feels like a potential early-fall crowd pleaser. "Change of Plans": Dinner for cheaters 2010-08-28T00:30:00Z Montaigne’s book had been published just a few years before James finished his. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Partly it’s that the work consists mostly of poems, so it wouldn’t have come into anyone’s mind to link it with Montaigne, apart from the title. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z He also writes smitten elegies to his influences, including Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag and Montaigne. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z She left a Valentino show without placing an order, walked into a boutique on the Avenue Montaigne and bought a ready-to-wear Valentino gown. Betsy Bloomingdale, Socialite and Friend of Influencers, Dies at 93 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It could even be said that Montaigne comes to you. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Minutes after we’ve been introduced to the charms of Montaigne and his unceasing examination of his whims and preferences, we’re advised that the lust for self-expression is treacherous. ‘The Road to Character,’ by David Brooks 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z One of his favorite writers was Montaigne—indeed, he said, “I am a new man, as Montaigne was a new man.” Memories of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z These days, to what extent will American audiences react to allusions to Montaigne, Kant, Stendhal and Benjamin Constant, whose novel “Adolphe” inspires the prank? Movie Review: ‘What’s in a Name?,’ a Farce About a Fractious Evening 2013-12-12T23:26:35Z And like Montaigne, he never really forgets what his subject is. Attention!: A (Short) History by Joshua Cohen – review 2013-06-21T10:00:01Z Had they lived in our own time, the charismatic despots of the 20th century would equally have posed, to Montaigne and La Boétie, the threat of passive obedience. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Blount had published Florio's translation of Montaigne, as well as his dictionaries. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z Fen Montaigne is a former Moscow correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and the author of “Reeling in Russia.” From the Czars to Putin: A History of Russia’s Imperial City 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Montaigne was, as Sarah Bakewell observes in her book How to Live, the philosopher par excellence of modesty, particularly the self-restraint that helps people to engage with others. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Montaigne returned the compliment by praising his former teacher more than once in the Essais. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Blaise Pascal singled out Montaigne as "the incomparable author of 'the art of conversation'". All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z “I have to say, it was always a little bit second-best when we were right across the road,” he added, meaning the Dior offices on the Avenue Montaigne. Bill Gaytten, Out From the Shadows Cast by John Galliano 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Many of the thinkers he surveys, from Lao Tzu and Aristotle to Montaigne and Spinoza, have tried to philosophize their way to tranquility, but no one has quite succeeded. Review | We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Another actress deeply linked to the house was fashion icon Marlene Dietrich - who loved Christian Dior so much she moved just down the road on Avenue Montaigne. Dior exhibit traces 60 years of cinema 2012-05-10T21:16:08Z Modesty without shame: Montaigne's idea of civility is in part that, if we can be easy with ourselves, we can be easy with other people. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Pessoa is a genius and is there with Proust, Joyce, Montaigne and my all-time favorite, Thucydides. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It seems to indicate that Montaigne saw his own sensibility as poised on a knife-edge between being submerged in the ephemeral trivialities of contingent competition, and the lasting importance of life properly engaged with. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z In the Berluti headquarters near the Avenue Montaigne in Paris, wooden shoe lasts, each penciled with an individual client’s name, prove that this brand is the haute couture of footwear. In men?s wear, Italian is premier but French are the owners 2012-01-13T14:48:20Z As a man moving around his local community, Montaigne enjoyed dialogic conversations more than dialectical arguments, tinged as all disputes were for him with the threat of descent into violence. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Fierce assertion directly suppresses the listener, Montaigne says; the debater demands only assent. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Montaigne often got his quotes wrong and was hit and miss about attributing them to sources. Attention!: A (Short) History by Joshua Cohen – review 2013-06-21T10:00:01Z Branching off Paris’s famed Champs-Élysées, Avenue Montaigne is home to some of the finest luxury brands in the world, including a celebrated Louis Vuitton store. Peter Marino updates the Louis Vuitton boutique on Avenue Montaigne in Paris 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Now 88, Kern was already on the fashion designer’s payroll in the building on Avenue Montaigne. "Mr Dior? He was like family," 1950s model recalls 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The subtitle — “Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer” — serves as an organizing principle. Conversation Across Centuries With the Father of All Bloggers 2010-12-18T00:33:20Z The essayist Michel de Montaigne thought that quoting well, in a piece of writing, was akin to arranging someone else’s flowers. Review: J. D. McClatchy’s Secret Autobiography, in Quotations 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z They looked forward to what is called "the new documentary", but also looked back to the literary essay in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne. Chris Marker obituary 2012-07-30T11:57:53Z Montaigne is “the quintessential blogger,” declared Andrew Sullivan, who writes for The Atlantic, someone who dared “to show how a writer evolves, changes his mind, learns new things, shifts perspectives, grows older.” Conversation Across Centuries With the Father of All Bloggers 2010-12-18T00:33:20Z That would explain the English fixation on Montaigne, our drive to emulate him. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Roses, both blooms and thorns, are displayed in doll-houses inspired by the brand’s “home” on Avenue Montaigne. Rocks of Ages: Blings of the Past 2010-12-13T14:00:00Z Sarah Bakewell’s “How to Live,” on the life and work of Montaigne, is a book I love. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Montaigne always complained of his “monstrously deficient” memory, so he didn’t bother accumulating facts, Ms. Bakewell explained. Conversation Across Centuries With the Father of All Bloggers 2010-12-18T00:33:20Z It is a tradition among students, I would later learn, to touch the shoe of Montaigne with the hope that doing so brings them luck on their exams. Reclaiming the Age-Old Art of Getting Lost 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Montaigne’s essays contain more than 100 quotations from Lucretius’ poem. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z Montaigne said she was fine with the decision, especially because she knew the pandemic was far from over in the Netherlands, with thousands of new cases of coronavirus currently being reported every day. Second Time Lucky? Eurovision Hopefuls Try Again. 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Fine—Montaigne was Montaigne, a mountain in more than name. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z One model took the architectural theme even further, closing the show with a dollhouse for a dress, in a golden version of Dior’s 30 Avenue Montaigne townhouse. Back to black for Christian Dior at sumptuous Haute Couture show 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Williams' amateur astronomy hero Phil Shepherdson, and his telescope made out of baked-bean cans It's an artist's studio and, like Montaigne's tower room or George Bernard Shaw's rotating shed, a refuge from the quotidian world. Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z He’s like Montaigne or Benjamin Franklin, too, in that he can become your friend — a lifelong companion. Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Dior’s sparkling collection at 30 avenue Montaigne Thursday cleverly reinterpreted and transposed into jewelry designs original dresses from the late Christian Dior himself. Beyoncé and J-Lo’s designers cap Paris couture 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The actress Marlene Dietrich spent the last ten years of her life bedridden, in her apartment on Avenue Montaigne, in Paris, refusing to see old acquaintances and avoiding photographers. Marlene Dietrich’s Marginalia 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Montaigne thinks empathy rather than sympathy is the cardinal social virtue. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z In an essay on education, published in 1580 as part of his first collection, Montaigne spoke well of his own experience, emphasizing that learning should be fun. Conversation Across Centuries With the Father of All Bloggers 2010-12-18T00:33:20Z It is a tradition among Sorbonne students, I would later learn, to touch the shoe of Montaigne with the hope that doing so brings them luck on their exams. Why you should get lost in Europe 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Montaigne said, "Mistrust a man who takes games too seriously; it means he doesn't take life seriously enough." 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z In November, the Plaza Athénée on Avenue Montaigne is expected to close for major renovations. | Closin' Up the Ritz 2011-10-31T22:23:54Z Like Montaigne, he seemed not to count his borrowings but to weigh them. A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z “Here I am,” Montaigne wrote, “and as long as I am here, so are you.” Jonah Lehrer returns with 'A Book About Love.' Can it rescue his reputation? 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Montaigne took a different tack: he wrote of grief by writing it off. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z Thus a modern reader can — like Montaigne, who loved the book — still read Diogenes for intellectual entertainment, especially in this magnificent new edition packed with illustrations and notes. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The exhibition, which coincides with the opening of a Fendi flagship store on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, will then travel to New York and China. Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld to Aid Rome’s Fountains 2013-06-03T10:03:39Z A riff on Marino’s arty design at the brand’s Paris flagship on Avenue Montaigne, the new, north-of-the-border location mixes Dior’s accessories and outfits with contemporary art and far-out furnishings. Look Inside Dior’s First Canadian Store 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z He adored the wisdom of Montaigne, the imagination of Calvino, the erudition and insight of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z A couple of pages might see the narrative breeze through the Oracle of Delphi, the philosophy of Aristotle, the fiction of Gogol, and the essays of Montaigne. Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell by Hugh Aldersey-Williams – review 2013-02-28T08:00:01Z Taking an interest in others, on their own terms, is perhaps the most radical aspect of Montaigne's writing. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z The opening shot, made originally for American Vogue, shows members of the Dior ateliers assembled in front of the house, at 30 Avenue Montaigne. With ?Dior Couture,? Patrick Demarchelier Opens the House?s Doors 2011-11-29T20:45:15Z The volume kicks off with Montaigne, followed by fragments of Bacon, Johnson, Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice – reviews 2012-05-25T21:55:07Z Parker’s pal, Louis, who has eclectic tastes, is currently juggling Montaigne and Hemingway, and “when he wasn’t reading, he was contemplating what he’d just read.” Dangerous Disappearing Acts, With Killers in Pursuit 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Readers might get a better sense of Garfunkel through his long and varied reading lists, which include Montaigne, Edith Wharton and E.L. Art Garfunkel opens up, and what spills out is a fascinating mess 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z "Our self," Montaigne writes in an essay on vanity, "is an object full of dissatisfaction, we can see there nothing but wretchedness and vanity." All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Montaigne, who in the space of a few years lost his first-born daughter, his brother, his father and his dearest friend, experienced a grief so crushing he wished to die. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z Painful kidney stones were the least of Michel de Montaigne’s problems; he was kidnapped, and watched as neighbors infected with plague lay down with resignation in graves they dug themselves. ‘On Consolation’ Searches for Solace in the Face of Grief and Misery 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z In Paris last week there was more leaking going on in the maisons of Avenue Montaigne than in the Trump White House. Fashion’s Gossip Addiction 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Montaigne's emblematic, enigmatic cat lay at the heart of this project. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Something in Montaigne’s voice, the particular texture of its introspection, opened a vein that had been aching to pop. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z That's why I am pleased to rank myself alongside Montaigne, Aesop, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Kahil Gibran as one of the cleverest men to have ever lived. Taleb service 2010-12-21T09:52:09Z He expressed pride in his rare-book collection, which includes two first editions of Montaigne’s essays. Saint Laurent?s Other Half 2011-05-11T19:13:21Z To Ms. Sander, the show was a devastating failure, assuaged only when she opened her trademark minimalist store on Avenue Montaigne nearly two decades later in 1993. Jil Sander Bathes in the Glow of Uniqlo 2010-06-07T11:40:00Z Grudé had read only Montaigne’s first volume, but on that evidence alone put him into a company with Plutarch. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z As social animals we are capable of co-operating more deeply than the existing social order envisions, for Montaigne's emblematic, enigmatic cat is lodged in ourselves. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z I cleave to the Montaigne quote with which I began this answer, but lingering in the back of my mind was a series of observations made by the protagonist of Richard Ford's The Sportswriter. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Like Holbein's young emissaries to Britain, the young Montaigne had a political education as a member of the parlement of Bordeaux – a regional council of notables. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z As a man of his time, Montaigne was entranced by skill of a technical sort. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z Additionally, it’s the case that Montaigne, our greatest and original essayist, was moved to write because, Lehrer argues, he was gutted by the death and absence of his dearest friend. Jonah Lehrer returns with 'A Book About Love.' Can it rescue his reputation? 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Her breakthrough 2010 smash, “How to Live,” was an innovative exercise in writing the life of a sole subject — in that case, essayist Michel de Montaigne. Review | Sarah Bakewell takes us on a 700-year tour of humanism 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The students at Bordeaux Montaigne University, on the outskirts of the city, have gone even further — occupying the entire campus. French Anger at Macron Seeps Into Unexpected Corners 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “On the Britain side, they felt that France was trying to punish the U.K. for exiting the European Union,” said Georgina Wright, head of the Europe Program at the Institut Montaigne, a French think tank. After Years of Bickering, France and Britain Look for a New Start 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z "But Paris knows this is an incredibly salient issue for the PM but also his party, the Labour Party and many Britons," said Georgina Wright, an analyst at the Institut Montaigne in Paris. Sunak and Macron to discuss migration and Ukraine as they reset ties 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Dior is selling a $3,500 Advent calendar inside a wooden and cotton canvas box fashioned like its Paris boutique on Avenue Montaigne. From wine to fishing tackle, retailers pray Advent calendars will appeal to shoppers 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Does that mean you should devote your evenings to arguing with Plato, working your way through Dante and learning how to live from Montaigne? Perspective | Why read old books? A case for the classic, the unusual, the neglected. 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The Renaissance philosopher Montaigne quipped that “death has us by the scruff of the neck at every moment.” The long and gruesome history of people trying to live forever 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z The only way Ada Harris could own one herself, as the title suggests, was to drop in on the House of Dior at 30 Avenue de Montaigne. ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ with dreams of owning Dior gown 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Such a pensée fits with the French moralist tradition of Montaigne, Pascal and La Rochefoucauld, yet Baudelaire always regarded Edgar Allan Poe, whom he translated, as his spiritual brother. Review | Finding wisdom in Charles Baudelaire’s mad scribblings 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z “He is going to want to go further and faster,” said Georgina Wright, an analyst at the Institut Montaigne in Paris. Macron’s Win Is Also a Blow to Viktor Orban’s Nationalist Crusade 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Montaigne admitted that visitors called the Brazilians cannibals, but he mocked the moral pretensions of Europe by dryly observing that eating prisoners was kinder than torturing them, as Europeans did in their wars of religion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z After the death of a dear friend, Montaigne thought deeply about life’s meaning. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Through its major states, Europe has returned to a stage from which it seemed to have been marginalized,” Michel Duclos, a former French ambassador, commented in a paper published this week by the Institut Montaigne. Emmanuel Macron in His Labyrinth 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Its greatest practitioners — Montaigne, Barthes, Sontag — recognized its discursive potential and used it to contend with their own competing ideas. Emily Ratajkowski explores her growing pains in ‘My Body’ 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z "France has a vision but it's often too assertive and Macron's leadership can sometimes be disruptive," said Georgina Wright of the Institut Montaigne think tank in Paris. Analysis: In post-Merkel EU, Macron can't exert leadership without allies 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The document, to be published next year, will be the first test of how serious E.U. leaders are about strengthening their defense strategy, said Georgina Wright, head of the Europe program at Institut Montaigne. Does the European Union need its own army? Afghanistan withdrawal revives an old debate. 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z To communicate his ideas, Montaigne developed a new form of literature, the essay. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul tells the story of Montaigne, a 16th-century thinker who might have been the first to design a man cave and style it in ways to promote deep thought. Review | Where does great thinking come from? Look beyond the brain. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z She opens with a reverie in which she encounters Virginia Woolf in heaven; she considers not just Sidney but also Shakespeare, Montaigne and Walter Benjamin. Review: Before the superhero flick came the escapist pastoral. A writer’s defense of the wispy form 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z It's what Australia will be using on the night, because travel restrictions mean singer Montaigne can't get to Rotterdam. Eurovision 2021: How this year's acts are aiming for a Covid-safe contest 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z “Age,” Montaigne wrote, “imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.” Opinion | What my 80 years have taught me 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z In one essay, Montaigne pointed out that whenever a new belief arose, it replaced an old belief that people once accepted as truth. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A few years ago, she found herself waiting outside the Lycée Montaigne, her old high school, which her niece Lélia was now attending. Long-Silenced Victim of a Pedophile Writer Gets to Tell Her Story 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Montaigne, Eisendrath reminds us, “also worked with the bits that floated his way: thoughts, scraps of reading, illnesses, falls of horses.” Review: Before the superhero flick came the escapist pastoral. A writer’s defense of the wispy form 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Yves Gallet, an art historian at Bordeaux Montaigne University, oversees a group that aims to study stones that are still in place, such as the encasements that cradle the four-story-diameter rose windows. Scientists are leading Notre Dame’s restoration—and probing mysteries laid bare by its devastating fire 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “To philosophize is to learn to die,” observed Montaigne. Commentary: John Simon, Clive James and the future of criticism in our culture 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z For these reasons, Montaigne believed that humans could never have absolute knowledge of what is true. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he got into the habit of waiting for Ms. Gee outside her new high school, Lycée Montaigne, next to the Luxembourg Gardens. Long-Silenced Victim of a Pedophile Writer Gets to Tell Her Story 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z For more: Stevie Jean is touring nationally this month with Montaigne. Tame Impala, Cold Chisel and Okenyo: best Australian music for November 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Montaigne, who never reached sixty, might have changed his mind upon learning that, in the twenty-first century, people routinely live into their seventies and eighties. Why We Can’t Tell the Truth About Aging 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The truth has only one face, wrote the 16th-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, but a lie “has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits”. The race to create a perfect lie detector – and the dangers of succeeding 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “If I were to summarize the thinking of Macron on Trump, it would be twofold,” said Dominique Moisi, a fellow at the Paris-based Institut Montaigne think tank who advised the Macron campaign on foreign policy. ‘Don’t poke the bear’: European leaders refine their approach to Trump 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z The title is a giveaway, but these charming, digressive “essayettes,” in the manner of Montaigne, surprise and challenge more than a reader might expect. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Montaigne was right that justice can be fleeting in a nation, but there is much resilience in a town. Notre-Dame in the French Imagination 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Another evening, when he was walking down Avenue Montaigne, near the Canadian Embassy, he noticed a stylish duplex in which the lights remained on all night. The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z That position is supported by a report on the spread of political Islam in France by the Institut Montaigne, a policy research think tank. France Debates Where to Teach Arabic: Public School or Local Mosque? 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z From the Champs Élysées to Avenue Montaigne and along the Rue St.-Honoré, the glossiest and most glamorous shopping streets of central Paris are usually bustling on Saturdays in December. In Paris, ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Cut Sharply Into City’s Luxury Trade 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z “There’s a tradition of regicide in France, of killing the king when the king is wrong,” said Dominique Moïsi, a foreign policy expert at the Paris-based Institut Montaigne and a former Macron campaign adviser. ‘Yellow vest’ protests damage Paris monuments, shops and Macron’s presidency 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z From Montaigne to Matisse—who painted it often—it’s just present. Notre-Dame in the French Imagination 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Forbidden to attend high school because he was Jewish, Dr. Braham studied by candlelight, reading Hungarian translations of French writers François Villon and Michel de Montaigne. Randolph L. Braham, leading historian of the Holocaust in Hungary, dies at 95 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z “Europeans are too deeply divided among themselves — and on the fundamentals,” said Dominique Moïsi, a foreign policy analyst at the Institut Montaigne in Paris and former Macron campaign adviser. While commemorating WWI, Macron auditions to be the leader of Europe 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The essay takes its name from Montaigne: essai, Middle French for an attempt or try. The pleasures of ambiguity: David L. Ulin on 'Essayism' by Brian Dillon - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Montaigne’s perpetually mobile essays are in search of the palpable realities of life: death, cruelty, joy, warfare, sex, the ethics of parenting, the incoherence of the self. “Flights,” a Novel That Never Settles Down 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Montaigne laments the dying cries of a wounded hart in his essay on cruelty; so does William Wordsworth in his poem “Hart-Leap Well.” Opinion | She reported her rape. Her hometown turned against her. Can justice ever be served? “To lose one’s soul is much more serious than to lose elections,” said Dominique Moïsi, a fellow at the Paris think tank Institut Montaigne, who once advised the Macron campaign on foreign policy. Merkel and Macron defend a diminished vision of European values 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z He had a tattoo referencing the 16th century essayist Montaigne. Books were good to Anthony Bourdain — but TV was even better 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z For guidance, read Sarah Bakewell’s clear-sighted distillation of Michel de Montaigne’s essays, How to Live, a wise and beautiful book I keep by my bedside. Books to give us hope: Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Rose McGowan and more share their picks 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Right now I am reading a fascinating book by Sarah Bakewell entitled “How to Live, Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.” Lost and Found 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Montaigne and Wordsworth lived near enough to the bloody indifference of nature to spare a thought for its victims. Opinion | She reported her rape. Her hometown turned against her. Can justice ever be served? Delon developed the line in record time, presenting the first prototypes last year with a celebrity-filled party at Paris multibrand store Montaigne Market, less than five months after deciding to revive the project. Anthony Delon seeks fashion renaissance with leather jacket line 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z “He wants to appear as a voice of reason,” said Dominique Moïsi, a foreign policy expert at the Institut Montaigne, a Paris think tank linked to Macron’s campaign. Emmanuel Macron speaks to the world. But what about the French? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Via many endearing digressions and changes of heart, Montaigne talks to all our human fears and guides us towards freedom from our habitual “inanity and nonsense”. Books to give us hope: Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Rose McGowan and more share their picks 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Montaigne wrote that “true solitude . . . may be enjoyed even in populous cities and the courts of kings,” though it is most thoroughly enjoyed alone. Lost and Found 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Both Montaigne and Wordsworth meditate on the deer’s last stagger, the long prelude to death, the moment when the light leaves its eyes. Opinion | She reported her rape. Her hometown turned against her. Can justice ever be served? There are entertaining pen-portraits of thinkers such as Schopenhauer and Montaigne. The consolations of philosophy for the middle-aged 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Meanwhile the personal essay itself – the formal apparatus of honest self-examination and sustained engagement with ideas, as developed by Montaigne and advanced by Emerson and Woolf and Baldwin – is in eclipse. Is it too late to save the world? Jonathan Franzen on one year of Trump's America 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z “There are few other surgical options to reduce the risk of post-surgery heart damage, meaning new techniques to protect patients are needed,” Montaigne said in a statement. Why Heart Surgery May be Better in the Afternoon 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Writing the in Lancet, Montaigne and colleagues report how they looked at the outcomes of 596 patients, half of whom had valve surgery in the morning, and half in the afternoon. Afternoon heart surgery has lower risk of complications, study suggests 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z For Dominique Moïsi, a French foreign policy expert at the Paris-based Institut Montaigne, a think tank with ties to the Macron campaign, there is potential danger in Macron’s having “put himself in the limelight.” Nearing 100 days in office, Macron starts showing his true ambitions 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z “This generation is biologically, physically ending in front of our eyes,” said Dominique Moïsi, a French foreign policy expert at the Paris-based Montaigne Institute, a think tank linked to Macron. Two deaths in Europe point to the rebirth of E.U. optimism 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z At the center of that world was the iconic “Bar suit,” named after the bar of the Hotel Plaza Athénée, a stone’s throw from Dior’s headquarters on the Avenue Montaigne. How Christian Dior rescued Paris from its postwar misery 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z “It reflects a judgment of the first weeks in power of Emmanuel Macron,” said Dominique Moïsi, a foreign policy adviser at the Institut Montaigne, a Paris think tank close to the Macron campaign. French parliamentary elections give big boost to Macron 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z You know something sceptical’s afoot when you find Larkin on your bedside table instead of Montaigne and La Rochefoucauld. Richard Ford: ‘Who needs friends?’ 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z The Institut Montaigne, the economist said, estimated the total cost of leaving the euro to be equivalent to 2.3% of the country’s GDP. How Marine Le Pen played the media 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The day after the party I went back to the Dior showroom on Avenue Montaigne. Maria Grazia Chiuri on fashion, feminism and Dior: ‘You must fight for your ideas’ 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Montaigne’s essays can seem like the Yquem of writing: sweet but smart, honeyed but a little acid. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Isn’t that what Montaigne said we were supposed to do later in life? Better Aging Through Practice, Practice, Practice 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Bakewell’s last book, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, was a bestseller and award winner on both sides of the Atlantic. 'Freedom, or their idea of it': does America need the existentialists? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z She noted that, furthermore, the longtime director of the Institut Montaigne was a close friend of still another opponent, Emmanuel Macron, and a backer of his movement, En Marche!. How Marine Le Pen played the media 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Aristotle, Montaigne, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Munger are just a few of our favorites. How to Improve Your Relationships With Others 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “There is but little relation between our actions that are in perpetual mutation and the fixed and immutable laws,” a chagrined Montaigne wrote later. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z “A man who fears suffering already suffer what he fears,” as Montaigne said. White man pathology: inside the fandom of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z My consolation is that I don't only have Montaigne for company. A Point of View: Is there any such thing as a wise person? - BBC News 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z “I believe En Marche! was in fact domiciled at the home of the Institut Montaigne’s director!” How Marine Le Pen played the media 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Years ago, she heeded the philosopher Montaigne’s advice to think about death daily to stave off fear, but no more. Diana Athill: ‘I expected to be shattered at the loss of my baby, and I wasn't' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z As the battles between those faithful to Henry of Navarre and those opposed to him went on in ever more intricate and absurd factional dances, Montaigne’s place within them was as treacherous as everyone else’s. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z And Montaigne, alas, oh flamboyant spirit ... his books dissipated their virtues in the mouth only to leave the taste buds the impression of stale paper. Garth Risk Hallberg on how fiction can ‘make it new’ 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It helps to know that Montaigne considered himself peevish and prattling, and Shakespeare felt he'd played the indiscriminating clown. A Point of View: Is there any such thing as a wise person? - BBC News 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Montaigne obsessed over himself down to the corns on his toes, but he did so with camaraderie and mirth. Henry David Thoreau, Hypocrite 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z I think this is what Montaigne was hinting at in his Essays when he wrote: Richard Feynman: The Difference Between Knowing the Name of Something and Knowing Something 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z “We are Christians by the same title as we are either Périgordins or Germans” was Montaigne’s most forceful statement on this point. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z The only presence that doesn’t leave 30 Avenue Montaigne is that of Christian Dior himself. 'Dior And I' Details The Label's New 'New Look' 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The Harry Winston boutique is situated on the fashionable Avenue Montaigne and attracts a wealthy clientele from around the world, from royalty to film stars. Eight guilty over $100m Paris heists 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z And the video shows how, about 10 minutes later, he held the door as they fled, rolling a bag of gems into the chic quarter of Avenue Montaigne. Inside Man in Paris Jewelry Holdups Admits to His Role, and Stupidity 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Montaigne wrote a “defense” of Seneca, Diderot an essay on his life. The Man to Know in Ancient Rome 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Desan, writing only about the French Montaigne, avoids the question that, for an English speaker, is essential: the great question of Montaigne’s relationship to Shakespeare. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Along with the lyrical essay, the memoir rides high in Reality Hunger: storytelling as self-examination, à la Montaigne or Joan Didion, true life instead of fake life. Does Fiction Need to Become Less ... Fictional? Was it Mencken, or Montaigne who said, "Hypocrisy is the obeisance that Vice pays to Virtue"? I watched my many nephews forestall marriage as long as reasonably practicable. Gay Marriage Case Offers G.O.P. Political Cover 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Talking to the researchers about Christian Dior’s first outlet, on the Avenue Montaigne in Paris, one manager said, “It’s a mythical place.” Quenching Consumers’ Thirst for ‘Authentic’ Brands 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z “The initiative aims to defuse the crisis that has paralyzed the capital since Tuesday,” Antoinette Montaigne said after Catherine Samba-Panza met with representatives of the militia in the presidential palace. C. African Republic leader in talks with militia 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Although Florio’s 1603 effort was the first English rendering of Montaigne’s essays to appear in book form, they had certainly been circulating in manuscript before that. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z From Montaigne I also learned the importance of keeping a commonplace book. 28 Secrets of Exceptionally Productive People 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z "Fears over the conflict between Ukraine and Russia have receded for now, which is helping the market recover some ground," said Arnaud Scarpaci, fund manager at Montaigne Capital in Paris. Stocks rise after Russia steps back; gains fragile 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Reconciliation Minister Antoinette Montaigne decries the evacuation missions as tantamount to accepting partition. Angry Muslims in Central African Republic call for partition 2014-04-24T18:06:23Z Antoinette Montaigne, communications minister for Central African Republic's interim government, said the administration was still waiting for a report about the incident, adding that the government condemned the violence. Ten dead as Chadian troops open fire on Bangui civilians - officials 2014-03-30T17:26:17Z And the balancing of opposites, the rhythm of assertion and counter-assertion, the sudden questioning turns, all of it seems irresistibly like Florio’s Montaigne, notably in the springy, self-surprised beat: Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Progressive French 16th Century essayist Michel de Montaigne suggested that formality spelled death to authentic correspondence. 10 old letter-writing tips that work for emails 2013-10-28T08:48:35Z "This guy certainly has a way with words," is her verdict on Michel de Montaigne. YouTube UK: 20 of Britain's most popular online video bloggers 2013-04-06T23:01:00Z On the Champs-Élysées and shopping streets such as Avenue Montaigne and Boulevard Haussmann, many retailers keep their window displays illuminated overnight, even though most close before 9 p.m. Paris Is for Early Birds Under New Lighting Plan 2012-12-05T17:07:59Z As Montaigne says, “Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.” Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z The point of the necklaces, for him, is to show that Montaigne rose from a background of bribes and payoffs; he doesn’t see that we care about the necklaces only because one hung on Montaigne. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z In the country of Rabelais, of Montaigne, of Voltaire, we are inclined to smile at everything that relates to the marvellous, to tales of enchantment, the extravagances of occultism, the mysteries of magic. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Montaigne’s words were not those of a philosopher talking only to his own order, he addressed himself to mankind at large, and he wrote in language the majority could easily comprehend. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The temper of his mind is tolerant, a quality that has informed the finer intellects of France since Montaigne. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Montaigne tells us that he was “borne between eleven of the clock and noone,” and, with like quaint precision, Huxley gives the hour of his birth as “about eight o’clock in the morning.” Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z But, we learn, the Montaignes, father and son, being the virtuous bourgeois they really were, played an active role in that parlement that the family had bought its way into. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Much valuable time, however, may be lost in the pursuit of ancient lore; and Montaigne has justly observed, “There are books which should only be read, but others that must be learnt.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z To adopt the language of Montaigne; “Men make themselves believe that they believe.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z In Montaigne's time it was the custom to dedicate special chapters of books to special persons. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Middleton tells the story from Cicero which, not without covert sympathy, Montaigne quotes in his Essay on Prognostications. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z The bureaucracies of justice and politics in which Montaigne found himself are, as Desan describes them, instantly familiar to anyone who knows the equivalent in contemporary France. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z He classes it with Montaigne and says he scarcely ever tired of “the artless prattle” of the “priggish little clerk of King Charles’s council.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The writings of Rabelais were only directed against the clergy, but the writings of Montaigne were directed against the system of which the clergy were the offspring.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Montaigne has been a favorite author on account of his sincerity. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z The master was the most genial of hosts, apparently the happiest of men, with the hearty laugh which Montaigne says never comes from a bad heart. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Montaigne had to learn to master this system while recognizing its essential mutability or, if you prefer, hypocrisy. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z He was a keen student of Rabelais and Montaigne, and familiarized himself with 16th-century French. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z It was thus in the sixteenth century, when religious strife waxed mad around him, that Montaigne preserved a little spot of tolerant thought. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z To change Montaigne's reply to the king who admired his essays, Bacon might say, "I am my garden." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Montaigne was the first man who raised his voice against torture in France; a man blessed with so much common sense, that he was the most uncommon man of the age in which he lived. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z This sense of doubleness—that what is presented as moral logic is usually mere self-sustained ritual—became essential to Montaigne’s view of the world. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z "I am altogether for Montaigne's advice," said I: "Fear nothing but fear." Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z It is a way of looking at things characteristic of men like Chaucer and Cervantes and Montaigne and Shakespeare, and Bunyan and Fielding and Addison, Goldsmith, Charles Lamb and Walter Scott. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z She was not at all of Montaigne's opinion that "incuriosity" is a soft and sound pillow to rest a well-composed head upon. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z Lost to the traumas of religious and social turmoil were the humble and pragmatic humanistic approaches of Francis Bacon and Michel de Montaigne and the suppleness of William Shakespeare. Economists: A Profession at Sea 2012-01-19T07:00:14Z Montaigne was witnessing the beginning of the parallel paper universe of the French bureaucratic state, where euphemism allows interest, and sometimes evil, to take its course. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z A generation before, Montaigne had already completed his collegiate course when he attained his thirteenth year. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Montaigne and Mr. Spectator and the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table would fall into delightful chat. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z An angel, the spirit, for example, of Michael de Montaigne, perched upon the City Hall—the eastern end of the ridge pole—must be tempted to laugh heartily. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z I am still inclined to think that the metaphor, in its present concise form at all events, does not belong to Montaigne, though it may owe its origin to some passage in the Essays. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z Montaigne accepts, as no other writer had, that our inner lives are double, that all emotions are mixed, and that all conclusions are inconclusive. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z It must be pleasant to meditate on the great men of letters and from time to time write an essay on Virgil or Montaigne or Matthew Arnold. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Examples are also to be found in Montaigne, Bk. ii. ch. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Nothing, that I have ever met with, upon this subject, appears more just, than the sentiments of Michael De Montaigne, vol. i. ch. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z I will conclude my preface with the ideas of Montaigne. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z By giving life to this truth, Montaigne animates for the first time an inner human whose contradictions are identical with his conscience. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Thus he tells us that Montaigne is the first French author whom an English gentleman is ashamed not to have read. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z —D. Q. is referred to Montaigne, who is the author of the passage; but not having access to his works, I am not able to give a paginal reference. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-21T03:00:39.257Z "Sleep," says Montaigne, "stifles and suppresses the faculties of our mind." Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z The fine flavor and genius of the essay—as in Bacon and Montaigne, Lamb, Hazlitt, Thackeray, Thoreau; perhaps even in Stevenson—is the rich bouquet of personality. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The German author Stefan Zweig, in flight from Nazism, turned first of all to Montaigne, writing, “Montaigne helps us answer this one question: ‘How to stay free? Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z I only know a single author that I can rank with Schopenhauer, or even above him, in the matter of honesty; and that is Montaigne. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The tale of "The Divided Horsecloth" is told, in another version, both by Montaigne and Browning. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z "I think it is Montaigne who has said that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head," he wrote to Edmund Randolph. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z My Grandfather was not at all of Montaigne's opinion that order in the management of life is sottish, but looked upon it rather as "Heaven's first law." Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z Montaigne is present now in the things he feels and the way he sounds, and that is like a complete human being. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Schopenhauer has a second characteristic in common with Montaigne, besides honesty; a joy that really makes others joyful. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The blast upon the window-pane Disturbs me not, as trouble-free, I smoke my pipe and read Montaigne. Poems 2011-11-14T03:00:17.707Z After one week in Rome, during which they visited as many of the wonders of the Eternal City as the time allowed, they journeyed on to Naples, reading Montaigne by the way. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z He published editions of Montaigne and La Fontaine; he wrote a life of Condé. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Montaigne, having no access to the abstract concepts that were later laid on this foundation, gives us deeper access to them, because he was the one who laid it. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Let me recall by way of envoi that fine story in Montaigne. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z To happiness I hold the key In this rare, sweet philosophy; And while the Fates so fair ordain, Well pleased with Destiny's decree, I smoke my pipe and read Montaigne. Poems 2011-11-14T03:00:17.707Z She studied the Bible, with the keen fresh interest of one who comes new to it, and she read Livy and Montaigne. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z Unlike Montaigne, a sceptic of a different stamp, he never gave undue advantage to his personal comfort. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z “What do I know?” was Montaigne’s beloved motto, meaning: What do I really know? Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z And if we want a literary or historical warrant for it we may go to old Montaigne. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Always thy subject I would be, And smoke my pipe and read Montaigne! Poems 2011-11-14T03:00:17.707Z There were four pairs who responded to me in my sacrifice: Epicurus and Montaigne, Goethe and Spinoza, Plato and Rousseau, Pascal and Schopenhauer. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Many great authors have been indebted to him,—Rabelais, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Shakspeare, Bacon, and Dryden, among the number. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Our Montaigne was invented only in the early nineteenth century. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z The grand marble staircase at Dior, situated on Paris' exclusive Avenue Montaigne, was the site of the atelier's first fashion shows, where stars like Lauren Bacall and Marlene Dietrich would watch sinewy models pass by. LVMH reveals secrets of its luxury brands 2011-10-17T16:22:32Z On the rafters of Montaigne's tower-room was written in Greek, 'It is not so much things that torment man as the opinion that he has of things.' Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z The boldness of the protest and the affectionate admiration of Montaigne have given la Bo�tie a much higher reputation than any extant work of his actually deserves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z To pour into the life the spirit of Emerson, Bacon, and Montaigne is a liberal education in itself. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z That new form, the essay, is made as much from things that Montaigne prudently chose not to look at or evasively pretended not to know as from an avid, honest appetite for experience. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z The lithe and willowy form of the young girl of Spain, which Montaigne has called "un corps bien espagnole," was frequently to be found among the Cuban women. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z His confessions have the frankness of Montaigne, and almost the playful naïveté of Charles Lamb, combined with a vein of tender earnestness that stamps the individuality of the writer. Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People 2011-10-07T02:00:21.697Z Yet, as we have said, the century was Montaigne. not prolific of pure philosophical speculation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Montaigne famously said that no man is a hero to his valet. Steve Jobs Is Dead at 56 2011-10-05T12:35:00Z “God keep me from being an honest man, according to the description I daily see made of honor,” Montaigne wrote. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Picking up a volume he found there one morning, Robert continued a desultory conversation by saying: "You don't read Montaigne, do you, Cousin Sudie?" A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z “We work to get them to spend here and not on Avenue Montaigne or Galeries Lafayette,” he said. Paris Journal: Eager Chinese Shoppers Flock to Paris Stores 2011-09-15T00:58:11Z Montaigne warmly defended Montagu against the attacks of Archbishop Abbot. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour 2011-09-12T02:00:24.913Z I like Montaigne’s way of 33 saying, “As soon as I was able, I hired a spacious house in the city, for myself and books; where I again, with rapture, resumed my literary pursuits.” Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z E. B. White, a modern Montaigne, who got there through Thoreau, was deeply attached to his wife, Katharine. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Gallait next went to Paris, whence he sent to the Belgian Salons “Job on the Dunghill,” “Montaigne Visiting Tasso in Prison”; and, in 1841, “The Abdication of Charles V.,” in the Brussels Gallery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Montaigne's study was a tower, walled all about with books. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z In 1628 Montaigne’s witty suggestion that the King had power to throw “this mountain” into the see of York was rewarded by his appointment as Archbishop of York, Laud succeeding him as Bishop of London. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour 2011-09-12T02:00:24.913Z Montaigne, that naive child of nature, supports the first proposition; Saint Augustine, the apostle of free grace, advocates the second. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z You’re my best friend, Montaigne, like every subsequent essayist of his type, implies to his readers. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z So Montaigne asked that we keep a rein on our excitement when meeting the powerful and wealthy and on our judgements when encountering the poor and obscure. Aiming for the A-list 2011-07-29T14:18:22Z The nation of Montaigne and Moli�re is always the first to recognise and award the title of talent to lay bare the shoulders of her community and use the scourge upon them. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z For what I owe Montaigne, no dread To meet him on the morrow; And better still, it must be said, He never wants to borrow. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z Montaigne, Bacon, and Lord Verulam, were powerful advocates of this idea, which, being only more and more stimulated by the reaction-system of the hierarchy, lead to the epoch of the fifteenth century. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z When Montaigne tells us that his library is where “I pass the greatest part of my live days and wear out most hours of the days,” he was being poetical. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Other of Montaigne's peculiarities are quite as interesting. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z What Rabelais was to the supporters of theology," says Buckle, "that was Montaigne to the theology itself. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z To adopt the language of Montaigne, "Men make themselves believe that they believe." A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Montaigne makes great pretense of telling his own faults, but you observe that he generally chooses rather amiable faults of his own to tell. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Montaigne’s “Essais,” in any of their stages—they went through three editions in his lifetime—are one of those classic books that benefit from being read irresponsibly. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Montaigne confesses that he did his best writing and was in the best humor for keeping at his Essays while stroking his favorite cat with his left hand, his other being occupied with his writing. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Montaigne's words were not those of a philosopher talking only to his own order, he addressed himself to mankind at large, and he wrote in language the majority could easily comprehend. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z Again, after those ages of sombre and oppressive faith under the roof of the cathedral, it appeared in the great Montaigne. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z Now come Rabelais, boldly declared by Coleridge one of the great creative minds of literature; and Montaigne, with those essays of his, still living, and, indeed, certain always to live. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Although those epigrammatic sentences can be arresting—“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which a man knoweth least”—Montaigne doesn’t think epigrammatically. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z But, even if this were enacted, it does not follow, as Montaigne has told us, that it would be used. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z "I am altogether for Montaigne's advice," said I: "'Fear nothing but fear.'" The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The essay was the invention of Montaigne in the sixteenth century, and Francis Bacon was another illustrious author who employed the literary form of the essay. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z The tether is long and elastic, but it is tenacious, and it is 41 securely tied to Montaigne. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z In this case, a specific relation seems to exist between Montaigne’s great essay “On Cruelty” and the scene in “As You Like It” where Jaques is reported brooding on the death of a deer. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z More than one "prosateur" has affected to despise poetry; in reference to which propensity, we may call to mind the bon-mot of Montaigne: "We cannot attain to poetry; let us revenge ourselves by abusing it." A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z As Montaigne, Rousseau, and the sea-nettle only shine when they move on. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z But to recur to plaisirs de la malaysance, Montaigne proves as clearly as that two and two make four that if there were no locks there would be no thieves! 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z Montaigne, in his “Essays,” is a pure and perfect egotist, naked and not ashamed. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Montaigne’s point is that when it comes to cruelty we should subordinate all other “reasoning”—stoic, of degree and dependency—to the essential fact of the stag’s suffering. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes as I dig the earth among my fruit-trees, the old, old earth, a sentence from Epictetus, or from Montaigne comes into my head, all at once luminous as I never saw it before. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z Harry Winston is situated on the fashionable Avenue Montaigne and attracts a wealthy clientele from around the world, from royalty to film stars. Stolen gems found in Paris drain 2011-03-08T23:17:28Z That day, in his Avenue Montaigne offices here, Mr. Arnault sat stunned as he watched the infamous video of Mr. Galliano’s drunken “I love Hitler” tirade. Off the Catwalk, the Battle for Herm?s 2011-03-05T23:40:33Z Egotism is Montaigne’s note, his differentia, in the world of literature. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z It was in the midst of all this that Montaigne was elevated to mayor of Bordeaux—an achievement, Desan shows, that was rather like getting appointed police commissioner under Tammany Hall. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z When we come in, my wife makes me a cup of tisane and while I sip that I read, sometimes a little of Montaigne, sometimes a little of Horace, sometimes something modern. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z But while Mr. Galliano apologized and riot police briefly surrounded Dior’s Avenue Montaigne headquarters, the outrage didn’t seem to hurt Dior or dim Mr. Galiano’s reputation for flamboyance. Galliano Case Tests Dior Brand?s Future 2011-03-02T01:49:23Z He perceived that the real business of the essay, as Montaigne had conceived it, was to be largely personal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z For substance, Montaigne is rich in practical wisdom, his own by original reflection or by discreet purveyal. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z “Montaigne’s humanism, as it was conceptualized starting in 1585, implies a renunciation of politics,” he declares, and elsewhere he sees in Montaigne a sort of false dawn of liberalism. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Montaigne liked Piedmont, finding the inns there better than elsewhere in Italy. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Shakespeare saw heroic antiquity through Plutarch, but also, surely, through Montaigne’s reading of antiquity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The word, in fact, was invented for this species of writing by Montaigne, who merely meant that these were experiments in 777 a new kind of literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z If Montaigne, in his “Essays,” held the mirror up to himself, he, in the same act, held up the mirror to you and to me. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Montaigne’s retreat was only a rich man’s way of getting off the highway before history ran him over. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Montaigne's diary is sometimes written in the second and sometimes in the third person. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Who would say that great novels like Don Quixote, great plays like Ibsen's, great essays like Montaigne's are not superior as literature to many of the best known verse productions. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It was in 1597, only five years after the death of Montaigne, that Bacon published in a small octavo the first ten of his essays. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Montaigne’s garnishes of quotation from foreign tongues are often a cold-blooded device of afterthought with him. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z “Montaigne is supposed to be the best proof of . . . the victory of private judgment over systems or schools of thought,” Desan writes. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z After a brief stay, during which he visited gardens and the environs of the city, which he admired greatly, Montaigne rode southward to Siena. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z He was very fond of Montaigne's essays, and of Pascal's "Pens�es"; but his "Polonius" reveals a sort of dislike and contempt for Voltaire. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Translated into English Verse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.917Z It would seem that at first, in England, as in France, no lesser writer was willing to adopt a title which belonged to so great a presence as that of Bacon or Montaigne. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Montaigne, at any rate, wrote his “Essays” on that easy principle. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z It is not that Montaigne is placed on a pedestal; it’s that we look up at him only to find that he is already down here with us. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Montaigne's "Essays" had been submitted to the Master of the Palace, who examined them with the aid of a French friar, for the Master knew no French. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Such industries are in their very nature, even in the earlier times, anti-revolutionary; the men of Montaigne would not use silk stockings. Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z He interspersed with his prose, translations and original pieces in verse, but in other respects Cowley keeps much nearer than Bacon to the form of Montaigne. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Mr. Emerson, in his “Representative Men,” makes Montaigne stand for The Skeptic. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Montaigne’s writing has not been taken out of his time. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z From Rome Montaigne made his way northward by Spoleto, where there was great alarm caused by a noted brigand. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z It is the Montaignes who remain, the confessants who offer something besides a psychological document—a transcendence which is not incoherent with pain. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z His Familiar Studies are of the same class as those of Montaigne and Lamb, and he approached far more closely than any other contemporary to their high level of excellence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z His method was largely the skeptical method of Montaigne. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The humanism that has to exist before liberalism can even begin is what Montaigne is there to show us still. ♦ Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Returning by way of Padua, Montaigne passed the sulphur springs, frequented in May and August by the fashionable sick, who took mud or vapour baths and drank the waters. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z If we but add Montaigne, who was educated in our century, the picture is complete. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The Essais were instantly welcomed, and few writers of the Renaissance had so instant and so vast a popularity as Montaigne. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z “Montaigne the Essayist”—that has become, as it were, a personal name in literary history. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z In the 16th century Castiglione and Montaigne had advocated a training directly adapted to prepare for polite life, and Elyot wrote on similar lines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z One offered to serve a rabbit for dinner free, if Montaigne would lodge with him. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Gums and teeth were to be rubbed with a rough towel every day according to Montaigne, and various tooth powders were commonly employed. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The essay, as a species of literature, was invented by Montaigne, who had probably little suspicion of the far-reaching importance of what he had created. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Readers are not to take too literally Montaigne’s notice of his dispensing with “borrowed beauties.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The last named work was by the celebrated fille d'alliance—adopted daughter—of Montaigne. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Next day Montaigne rode out of his way to see Pratolino, the Grand Duke's famous country place, with its gardens, alleys, wonderful grottos, all decked with Nereids and Tritons, and fountains of extravagant baroque designs. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Montaigne, when touching on this subject in his essays, says, “Put three Frenchmen together on the plains of Libya, and they will not be a month in company without scratching one another’s eyes out.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z In their first form, the essays of Bacon had nothing of the fulness or grace of Montaigne’s; they are meagre notes, scarcely more than the headings for discourses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Montaigne is perhaps as signal an example as any in literature of the man of genius exercising his prescriptive 43 right to help himself to his own wherever he may happen to find it. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The report, by the Institut Montaigne, a leading independent research group in Paris, found that academics constitute a much larger percentage of French émigrés to the United States today than 30 years ago. French Professors Find Life in U.S. Hard to Resist 2010-11-21T23:27:00Z Montaigne found most of the streets broad and straight, all paved with bricks; there were many palaces, but few people, and he missed the porticos of Padua, so convenient against the rain. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Michelle de Montaigne said: “Even if we could be learned with other men’s learning, at least wise we cannot be except by our own wisdom.” The Choice: Vaccination for ?Senioritis? 2010-10-27T14:41:00Z It should, on the contrary, always be the brief and light result of experience and profound meditation, while “undigested” is the last epithet to be applied to the essays of Montaigne, Addison or Lamb. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z But, with Montaigne—whatever is true of Emerson—the association at least is not occult; and it is such as pleases the reader not less than it pleased the writer. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The Institut Montaigne study concluded that, for the most talented French economics students, studies in the United States are an “obligatory step” toward a doctorate. French Professors Find Life in U.S. Hard to Resist 2010-11-21T23:27:00Z Another book belonging to Montaigne, a history of the Swiss, was confiscated, because the translator was a heretic. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z “At Rome,” Montaigne tells us, “a large sum of money was lost on the Change by this prognostication of our ruin.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Descartes was born in Touraine in 1596, and for the larger part of his life he was at least nominally a resident in the Paris of Louis XIV, Montaigne, and the earlier Jesuits. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Montaigne tells us how he was himself trained under his 46 father. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Butler's "Hudibras" is overflowing with proverbial allusions, and so, too, are the writings of Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, and many another who might be instanced. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Montaigne, however, was of opinion that these Penitents were hired for this purpose. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z “Yes, my child, it is,” said a low, soft voice; and there stood Paul Montaigne, with his calm aspect and bland smile. A Double Knot The paragraph would remind one in certain ways of that personal element that was to become more popular in literature after Montaigne had made such extensive use of it. Catholic Churchmen in Science The elder Montaigne, too, had his ideas on education—the subject which his son, in this essay, so instructively treats. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Ideas as well as learning are largely Montaigne’s. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Leaving Bologna, Montaigne hesitated in his choice of roads on account of brigands, and chose wisely for he was not molested. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z “The right of an old protector of these ladies,” said Montaigne, smiling. A Double Knot I would have there Thackeray and George Eliot and Wordsworth and Spenser, Malory and Homer and Cervantes and Shakespeare and Montaigne—oh, they should be shelves to rejoice the soul of the harassed reader! The Jonathan Papers We need hardly, therefore, add any thing about Montaigne’s outward life. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The latter is planted with plane trees, among which stand two huge statues of Montaigne and Montesquieu, and terminates upon the quays with two rostral columns which serve as lighthouses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Equally sceptical with Montaigne, and decidedly more cynical, he is distinguished by a deeper and sterner tone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" I am very much obliged,” said Montaigne with his blandest smile; and he raised his hat and went away smiling, cursing Marie in his heart. A Double Knot Have you ever read Montaigne’s essay ‘Of Glory’? Astronomical Discovery Montaigne’s “Essays” constitute, in effect, such a book. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z To read Montaigne, who lived blithely in conversation with death, is to step right out of our modern civilisation into a wiser world. The Book of This and That He delivered a course of sermons at Angers, and in the next year passed to Bordeaux, where he formed a famous friendship with Montaigne. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" “Who came to meet me, Lord Henry,” cried Ruth, flinging off Montaigne’s grasp and clinging to Glen’s arm. A Double Knot Montaigne complained that in his own country he had to purchase publishers, whereas elsewhere publishers were anxious to purchase him. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I Notwithstanding our autobiographer’s disavowal of debt to example for the idea of his “Confessions,” it seems clear that Montaigne here was at least inspiration, if not pattern, to Rousseau. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z They might be said in many cases to introduce the Montaigne method into fiction. The Book of This and That Usually, and so far correctly, it is coupled with the Essays of Montaigne, to which the author is under very extensive obligations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" He let his eyes wander from Montaigne to Lord Henry. A Double Knot These tales are for the most part written in octosyllabic couplets on the model of Chrestien, but a very few, such as Brun de la Montaigne, imitate the exterior characteristics of the Chanson. A Short History of French Literature Montaigne’s titles cannot be trusted to indicate the nature of the essays to which they belong. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Montaigne, who was by inclination a sensualist, looked with disgust on the man who drank too much, and the drunkard retorts that every vice except his own is selfish and anti-social. The Book of This and That One might recall how Montaigne was captivated in the land of Horace by the weighty manner of the chef of Cardinal Caraffa in discoursing upon the occultisms of his art. Ewing\\'s Lady Marie recovered herself, and had her hand upon the bell, when Montaigne said quietly: “Don’t be foolish, my dear; exposures are such awkward things.” A Double Knot The enormous popularity which the Essays of Montaigne enjoyed could not fail to raise up imitators and followers in the century succeeding their publication. A Short History of French Literature Things the most unexpected are incessantly turning up in Montaigne—things, probably, that were as unexpected to the writer when he was writing as they will be to the reader when he is reading. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He returned to his trust in the many things that may happen, and, lighting a pipe, fell upon his favorite Montaigne. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington If old Montaigne is to be believed there is nothing like writing about oneself. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself So far good; but Captain Marcus Glen, her old lover, was present, and Mr Paul Montaigne. A Double Knot Before Descartes there are three masters of this latter style, and three only, Rabelais, Calvin, and Montaigne. A Short History of French Literature This, as we shall presently let the author himself make plain, is no accident of which Montaigne was unconscious. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Ren� left him, and Schmidt turned, as he loved to do, to the counselor Montaigne, just now his busy-minded comrade, and, lighting upon the chapter on reading, saw what pleased him. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington The whole province of the north soon falls into his hands, and he drives the Spanish ally, Jean François, westward along La Montaigne Noire. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 “Mr Montaigne!” she cried, struggling to free herself. A Double Knot Montaigne for the first time throws invention and originality into some other form than verse or than prose fiction. A Short History of French Literature But Montaigne may be called the first, and he is the greatest; by no means the most monstrous, but the greatest. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z A new passion is born, and it is a complex of the old passions; the novelist of to-day cannot end as Montaigne, say that he goes to seek a great perhaps. A Novelist on Novels He says he ties his clothes together with a rope and lets the current of the river wash them, but I think this statement is what Montaigne would describe as "A shameless and solemne lie." Seeds of Pine Paul Montaigne caught Ruth by the wrist, and whispered a few words; while, on seeing who had come, Marcus Glen stepped boldly forward, and seemed ready to defend the woman he loved. A Double Knot Although Montaigne's municipal and legal appointments at Bordeaux are all that we know him to have enjoyed, he is styled 'gentleman in ordinary to the king,' and letters extant from and to Charles IX., A Short History of French Literature Montaigne’s “Essays” have been a great and a beneficent formative force in the development of prose style in French. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z To borrow an expression from Montaigne, "it lowers itself even to the worthless esteem of extreme inferiority." Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty My new friend declares that, like Montaigne, the bulldog fly has only one virtue and that this one got in by stealth. Seeds of Pine “You understand,” continued Montaigne, upon whose forehead the veins stood out. A Double Knot The fifth argues at some length, and in a spirit not very far removed from that of Montaigne, the thesis that 'Le goût particulier décide de tout.' A Short History of French Literature Montaigne’s “Essays” are, as we have said, himself. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Montaigne spoke Latin before he could speak French; Vernet drew men and horses before he had mastered either French or Latin. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections We have generally been content to date the beginning of the Essay in English from Florio's translation of Montaigne. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time A servant entered and announced Mr Paul Montaigne; and, blandly calm and smiling, that gentleman entered the room. A Double Knot Thus the comparative oblivion which, owing to the reforms of the early seventeenth century and the brilliant period of production which followed them, overtook most of the men of the Renaissance, did not touch Montaigne. A Short History of French Literature Here is Montaigne’s preface to his “Essays”—“The Author to the Reader,” it is entitled: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z When Montaigne said that he would rather forge his mind than furnish it, he suggested the true principle of education. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 It is good for us to have this refreshment for the eye when we leave off working, and Montaigne did wisely to have his study up in a tower from which he had extensive views. The Intellectual Life “Clever woman!” thought Montaigne: “this is her move; but I can mate her when I please.” A Double Knot But Montaigne, with his wide variety of subject, required and wrought out for himself a corresponding variety of style. A Short History of French Literature Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, our author, as the foregoing date will have suggested, derived his most familiar name from the place at which he was born and at which he lived. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z That incomparable essayist and chirping philosopher, Montaigne, married but once. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 To supply our own need, within the narrow limits of the few and transient hours that we can call our own, is enough for the wise everywhere, as it was for Montaigne in his tower. The Intellectual Life “At his country seat?” said Montaigne at haphazard. A Double Knot Yet no one was more capable than Montaigne, on the rare occasions when he judged it proper, of showing his mastery of sustained and lofty eloquence. A Short History of French Literature The sententiousness of Montaigne may be illustrated by transferring here a page of brief excerpts from the “Essays,” collected by Mr. Bayle St. John in his biography of the author. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Montaigne’s references to the revival of cookery in France by Catherine de’ Medici indicate that the new attention paid to the art was really novel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Montaigne tells us that at one time he bought books from ostentation, but that afterwards he bought only such books as he wanted for his private reading. The Intellectual Life “No,” whispered Glen, placing his lips close to Montaigne’s ear; “I have not read your death-sentence: betray us, and I will kill you, so help me God!” A Double Knot That Montaigne himself was a sound critical judge and not merely a lucky practitioner of style, may be judged from his singling out Amyot as the great master of it among his own immediate predecessors. A Short History of French Literature The apothegmatic or proverbial quality in Montaigne had a very important sequel of fruitful influence on subsequent French writers, as chapters to follow in this volume will abundantly show. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Perhaps the best name for such persons would be ‘naturalist,’ which was already in use with some such force in the time of Bodin and Montaigne. Rationalism We live in an age of essayists, and yet what modern essayist writes better than old Montaigne? The Intellectual Life “And, of course, you know, dear Mr Montaigne, Ruth is no longer a child, and—er—you understand.” A Double Knot Montaigne again, like Rabelais, deliberately refuses to be bound by the mere requirements of argument, and expatiates into all sorts of digressions, partaking of the other style, the style of description. A Short History of French Literature We append a saying of Montaigne’s not found in Mr. St. John’s collection: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Montaigne was of a more practical turn of mind. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine Montaigne tells us 129 that, notwithstanding all his father’s precautions, the place “was a college still.” The Intellectual Life The warm, pleasant look in Paul Montaigne’s face changed to one of a grim cold grey; the smile disappeared, his lips tightened, and he seemed for the moment to have grown old and careworn. A Double Knot Montaigne indeed is almost as complete a representative of the entire character for the last half of the century as Rabelais is of the first. A Short History of French Literature The name of La Bo�tie is forever associated with the name of Montaigne. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z |
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