Michel eyquem de montaigne biography of george

Family origins

Born February 28, 1533 at the Château de Montaigne in Perigord, Michel de Montaigne is from a family of Bordeaux wine merchants.

His great grandfather, Ramon Eyquem, acquired in 1477 this fortified house of the XIV century, and thus accesses the noble status of Lord of Montaigne he bequeathed to his children and grandchildren.

Fromthese, Pierre Eyquem was the first to leave the family counter to settle in the Périgord house he does develop and strengthen.

Fromhis marriage to Antoinette Louppes, daughter of a merchant from Toulouse, he had eight children including Michel was the eldest.

1533-1548 : Happy childhood in the castle of Montaigne

Brought to nurse in the small nearby village of Papassus, the young Michel Eyquem receives upon return to a family castle unusual education: Woke up each morning to the sound spruce "in order not to damage his tender brains", he learns early fluent in Latin from the age of seven, conversing nat