Origins
The fourteenth-century chateau, in which Michel de Montaigne was born and died, was burnt down in 1885. However, the fire spared the « library tower » (listed as an Historical Monument) in which the philosopher had his library and wrote his essays.

What to See
Montaigne’s rooms have not been altered since he lived and worked in them and his bedroom, the chapel dedicated to St Michel and, of course, the famous library whose ceiling is decorated Greek and Latin quotations illustrating its thought