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Montaigne, Michel De (–)
MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE (&#x;), French essayist. Montaigne was born at his family's château, which is still in existence, near Bordeaux, on 28 February The château de Montaigne and the title had been bought in by his great-grandfather Ramon Eyquem, who had made his fortune trading in wine and salt fish.
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Pierre, Montaigne's father, was the first of his family to "live nobly," that is, give up commerce, and Montaigne himself was the first to follow the aristocratic practice of adopting the name of the estate as his own. Pierre had married, in , Antoinette de Louppes (Lopez), from a family of converso Spanish Jews, and Michel was the eldest of their surviving children.
Montaigne's father took a great interest in the new humanist learning, and thus had Michel raised in the company of a tutor who spoke only Latin to him, so that Latin, rather than French, was his first language.
Montaigne spoke fondly of this part of his childhood, but less fondly o