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L7898 - Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Item No. L7898

Famous Authors: The Life and Work of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Series: Famous Authors
Item No: L7898
Length: 32 minutes
UPC: 709629278981
Copyright: 2015
CC: Yes
MARC Record: Yes
Language: English
Grade Level: 9-College
Age Range: 15-24
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Montaigne was a French aristocrat born in the midde of the 16th century a while before Shakespeare. . He wrote essays about his views on life and in particular about himself. They are wise and amusing and just as pertinent today as they were in this own times. This film by Malcolm Hossick follows his unusual and fascinating life. The programme begins by giving a sense of Montaigne's views on life suggesting why they are so prescient for today. It follows his unusual education and gives a background of the history of France of which he was for a time actually an intimate part. His brief friendship with a man called La Boetie colours his understanding of mankind and probably plays a part in his deciding to write down all he could think of about himself which forms what we know of as his essays. The film ends with some of the topics which so engaged him and which make him such a charming candidate for our attention in the twenty first century!

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