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  2. File:Montesquieu, De l'Esprit des loix (1st ed, 1748, vol 2).pdf

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    Short title: Montesquieu / Charles-Louis de Secondat / 1689-1755 / baron de La Brède et de / 0070. De l'Esprit des loix ou du Rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de chaque gouvernement, les moeurs, le climat, la religion, le commerce, à quoi l'auteur a ajouté des recherches nouvelles sur les loix romaines touchant les successions, sur les loix françoises,&sur les ...

  3. Montesquieu - Wikipedia

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    Château de la Brède, Montesquieu's birthplace. Montesquieu was born at the Château de la Brède in southwest France, 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Bordeaux. [4] His father, Jacques de Secondat (1654–1713), was a soldier with a long noble ancestry, including descent from Richard de la Pole, Yorkist claimant to the English crown.

  4. The Spirit of Law - Wikipedia

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    Montesquieu's treatise, already widely disseminated, had an enormous influence on the work of many others, most notably: Catherine the Great, who produced Nakaz (Instruction); the Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution; and Alexis de Tocqueville, who applied Montesquieu's methods to a study of American society, in Democracy in America.

  5. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The Enlightenment's desacrilization of religion was pronounced in the tree's design, particularly where theology accounted for a peripheral branch, with black magic as a close neighbour. [226] As the Encyclopédie gained popularity, it was published in quarto and octavo editions after 1777.

  6. Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans ...

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    Frontispiece and title page of 1748 edition. Initially, Montesquieu only intended on writing a few pages on the topic. [1] However, the size of his topic overwhelmed him, so he chose to expand the scope of his writing from the beginnings of the Roman Republic to the decay of the late Roman Empire. [1]

  7. Robert de Montesquiou - Wikipedia

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    Robert de Montesquiou was a scion of the French Montesquiou-Fézensac family.His paternal grandfather was Count Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1788–1878), aide-de-camp to Napoleon and grand officer of the Légion d'honneur; his father was Anatole's third son, Thierry, who married Pauline Duroux, an orphan, in 1841.

  8. Rationalist humanism - Wikipedia

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    Rationalist humanism tradition includes Tocqueville and Montesquieu, and in the 19th century, Élie Halévy. [3] [4] Other strands of the Enlightenment included scientific naturalism. [2] In the mid 20th century, rational humanism represented also an alternative for those that did not embrace Sartre's existentialism. [5]

  9. Constitution of 3 May 1791 - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of 3 May 1791 reflected Enlightenment influences, including Rousseau's concept of the social contract and Montesquieu's advocacy of a balance of powers among three branches of government—legislative, executive, and judicial—and of a bicameral legislature.