Note 374 — BOOK V[218] (continued 2)
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
The Château de Montaigne stood on a hill near the village of Saint-Michel, five leagues from Bergerac, in Guyenne. Montaigne was on one occasion captured by marauders and likely to be shot. His good-humour won not only his release but the restoration of the property of which he had been robbed (Cf. MONTAIGNE, Booke III. chap. 12: Of Physiognomy).—T.