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Montaigne
[ mon-teyn; French mawn-ten-yuh ]
noun
- Mi·chel Ey·quem [mee-, shel, e-, kem], Seigneur de, 1533–92, French essayist.
Montaigne
/ ³¾É”̃³Ùɛɲ /
noun
- MontaigneMichel Eyquem de15331592MFrenchWRITING: writerWRITING: essayist Michel Eyquem de (miʃɛl ikɛm də). 1533–92, French writer. His life's work, the Essays (begun in 1571), established the essay as a literary genre and record the evolution of his moral ideas
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France is "fiercely proud" that its intelligence and security services are not intertwined with the US, unlike the UK, says Georgina Wright, deputy director for international studies at the Institut Montaigne.
The Paris prosecutor’s office overseeing the investigation gave the robbery location as Avenue Montaigne, where Harry Winston has its dazzling, by-appointment store, but wouldn’t confirm that the jeweler was the target.
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.
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.
The students at Bordeaux Montaigne University, on the outskirts of the city, have gone even further — occupying the entire campus.
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