# Michel de Montaigne — Representative Men character guide

> Michel de Montaigne in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Montaigne, our Saint Michel de Montaigne

**First appearance:** 0004-iv-montaigne-or-the-skeptic

## Who they are

French essayist and central subject of the fourth chapter, representing the skeptic type.

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