His monument was restored in 1803 by a descendant.

It was seen about 1858 by an English traveller (Mr.St.

John).'-- ["Montaigne the Essayist," by Bayle St.
John, 1858, 2 vols.

8vo, is one of most delightful books of the kind.]-- and was then in good preservation.
In 1595 Mademoiselle de Gournay published a new edition of Montaigne's Essays, and the first with the latest emendations of the author, from a copy presented to her by his widow, and which has not been recovered, although it is known to have been in existence some years after the date of the impression, made on its authority.
Coldly as Montaigne's literary productions appear to have been received by the generation immediately succeeding his own age, his genius grew into just appreciation in the seventeenth century, when such great spirits arose as La Bruyere, Moliere, La Fontaine, Madame de Sevigne.
"O," exclaimed the Chatelaine des Rochers, "what capital company he is, the dear man! he is my old friend; and just for the reason that he is so, he always seems new.

My God! how full is that book of sense!" Balzac said that he had carried human reason as far and as high as it could go, both in politics and in morals.