What is Michel de Montaigne?
{{infobox writer | name = Michel de Montaigne | image = File:Portrait of Michel de Montaigne, circa unknown.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1533|02|28}} | birth_place = Château de Montaigne, Guyenne, [[Kingdom of France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1592|09|13|1533|02|28}} | death_place = Château de Montaigne, Guyenne, [[Kingdom of France]] | period = [[French Renaissance]] | genres = [[Essay]]s, [[non-fiction]] | subjects = [[Christianity]], [[classics]], [[education]], [[human nature]], [[moral]]s, [[philosophy]], [[science]], [[truth]] | module = {{infobox philosopher | embed = yes | school_tradition = {{plainlist| * [[Conservatism]] {{small|(in politics)}} * [[Counter-Reformation]] * Perspectivism<ref>{{cite book|last=Miner|first=Robert|year=2017|chapter=Gay Science and the Practice of Perspectivism|title=Nietzsche and Montaigne|pages=43–93|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-66745-4_3|isbn=978-3-319-66744-7}}</ref> * [[Scepticism]] }} | influences = {{hlist|[[Cato the Younger]]| [[Cicero]]| [[Horace]]| [[Heraclitus]]| [[Lucretius]]| [[Ovid]]| [[Plato]]| [[Plutarch]]| [[Seneca the Younger]]| [[Sextus Empiricus]]| [[Socrates]]| [[Virgil]]}} | influenced = {{hlist|[[Francis Bacon]]| [[Albert Camus]]| [[Pierre Charron]]| [[Charles Darwin]]| [[René Descartes]]| [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]| [[Michel Foucault]]| [[Sigmund Freud]]| [[Edward Gibbon]]| [[David Hume]]| [[Jean-François Lyotard]]| [[Karl Marx]]| [[John Henry Newman]]| [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]| [[Blaise Pascal]]| [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]| [[José Saramago]]| [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]| [[William Shakespeare]]| [[Virginia Woolf]]| [[Gore Vidal]]| [[Voltaire]]}} | signature = Unterschrift des Michel de Montaigne.png }}}} '''Michel Eyquem de Montaigne''' (28 February 1533 — 13 September 1592) was a French [[Renaissance man]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Heck|first=Francis S.|title=The Meaning of Solitude in Montaigne's ''Essays''|journal=The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association|volume=25|number=3|year=1971|pages=93–97|doi=10.2307/1346683|jstor=1346683}}</