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Michel de Montaigne
French writer Michel de Montaigne.
In 1565, Michel de Montaigne married Françoise de la Chassaigne, the daughter of one of his colleagues at the Parliament of Bordeaux. He entered into this marriage primarily out of a sense of social and familial duty rather than for love. Together, they had six daughters, though only one, Léonore, survived into adulthood.1