id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9814 Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia .html text/html 6451 705 70 Montaigne had a direct influence on Western writers including Francis Bacon, René Descartes,[7] Blaise Pascal, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, Virginia Woolf, Albert Hirschman, William Hazlitt,[8] Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Henry Newman, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer,[9] Isaac Asimov, and possibly, on the later works of William Shakespeare. His father, Pierre Eyquem, Seigneur of Montaigne, was a French Catholic soldier in Italy for a time and he also had been the mayor of Bordeaux.[5] The Essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. Regosin, 'Montaigne and His Readers', in Denis Hollier (ed.) A New History of French Literature, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London 1995, pp. ^ "French museum has 'probably' found remains of philosopher Michel de Montaigne". Essays of Michel De Montaigne ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9814.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9814.txt