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One of the most remarkable results of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne was an excellent French philosopher and statesman whose work immediately influenced René Descartes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Isaac Asimov and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was a humanist and a sceptic, with an insatiable and wide-ranging interest. In 1571, on his 38th birthday, he withdrew from general population life and retired to the catalogue in his castle tower, where he constructed a body of work that is still highly relevant today. This collection is made up of more than 100 chapters, written in a interestingly accessible manner. He weaves collectively personal anecdotes, serious intellectual discussion, and quotations from classical Greek and Roman philosophers. While this style was criticized during his lifetime as being excessively self-indulgent, he has since been credited with popularizing the essay as a respectable literary form. Using his own experience and judgement as a zoom lens through which to see the planet, his essays cover such disparate matters as war horses, cannibalism, and early customs; as well as heavyweight ideas such as war, death, religion and truth.
