Montaigne and 8890 Montaigne Asteroid - Paris, France
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member manchanegra
N 48° 50.994 E 002° 20.646
31U E 451881 N 5410977
Statue of Montaigne, famous French writer of the Renaissence located in front of the Sorbonne University.
Waymark Code: WMCX39
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 10/21/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
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Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592), was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers the world over, including René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, and perhaps William Shakespeare .

This statue is in the Square Paul-Painlevé facing the Sorbonne and it´s a copy of the original statue.
The original statue (in stone)of Montaigne was made by the sculptor Paul Landowski (1896-1961) and offered in 1934 in the city of Paris by Dr. Armengaud. In 1989 this statue was replaced by a bronze copy, better able to withstand the student pranks and vandalism. On the base of the statue (Made of stone) reads:

"Paris has my heart since my childhood. I am French only by this great city. Especially great and incomparable in variety. The glory of France and one of the noblest ornaments of the world. "

8890 Montaigne (1994 PS37) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 10, 1994 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory and named after Michel de Montaigne (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8890+Montaigne)
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