Mystery endures in France over Montaigne tomb

[Eldorado]

The Musee d'Aquitaine in the southwestern city of Bordeaux had in November launched work to examine the remains in the tomb in a basement of the museum, which occupies the premises of a convent where Montaigne, famed for his lofty but highly readable "Essays", was buried.

The bones found are those of a "single individual. It is an adult and it is probably a man," Helene Reveillas, an archaeo-anthropologist for the Bordeaux region, told reporters.

"We have elements which do not go against the idea that this is de Montaigne. But we also have nothing which allows us affirm it with certainty", she added.

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Michel de Montaigne: Wkipedia