Montaigne

From Montaigne, March first, 1580.

Among others, Peter Bunel, a man of great reputation for knowledge in his time, having, with some others of his sort, staid some days at Montaigne in my father’s company, he presented him at his departure with a book, entitled Theologia naturalis;

there are two families at Paris and Montpellier, whose surname is Montaigne, another in Brittany, and one in Saintonge, De La Montaigne.

Let Montaigne be overwhelmed in the public ruin if need be;

as Michel de Montaigne, not as a grammarian, a poet, or a lawyer.

I speak something another kind of language at Paris than I do at Montaigne.

My father took a delight in building at Montaigne, where he was born;

Quod Horatius Maximus, Martius Cecius, Alexander Mutus, almæ urbis conservatores de illustrissimo viro Michæle Montano equite Sancti Michælis et a cubiculo regis christianissimi, romana civitate donando, ad senatium retulerunt, S.

Quamobrem, cum Illustrissimus Michæl Montanus, Eques sancti Michælis et a Cubiculo Regis Christianissimi, Romani nominis studiosissimus, et familiæ laude atque splendore et propriis virtutum meritis dignissimus sit, qui summo Senatus Populique Romani judicio ac studio in Romanam Civitatem adsciscatur, placere Senatui P.

Illustrissimum Michælem Montanum, rebus omnibus ornatissimum atque huic inclyto populo charissimum, ipsum posterosque in Romanam Civitatem adscribi ornarique omnibus et præmiis et honoribus quibus illi fruuntur qui Cives Patritiique Romani nati aut jure optimo facti sunt.

The Mayor of Bordeaux and Montaigne have ever been two by very manifest separation.