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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.
The Spirit of Law (French: De l'esprit des lois, originally spelled De l'esprit des loix [1]), also known in English as The Spirit of [the] Laws, is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law by Montesquieu, published in 1748. [2]
The Age of Enlightenment ... Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1740); Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws (1748); ... Rousseau's Dictionnaire de musique ...
Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire; Translated from the French of M. De Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu; To which is Added The Eloge of M. de Montesquieu by M. de Maupertuis (4th ed.). Glasgow: Robert Urie. 1758 – via Internet Archive.
Separation of powers is a political doctrine originating in the writings of Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws, in which he argued for a constitutional government with three separate branches, each of which would have defined authority to check the powers of the others.
Etienne de Condillac (1715–1780). Jean d'Alembert (1717–1783). Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789). Materialist, atheist. Adam Smith (1723–1790). Economic theorist, member of Scottish Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). Major contributions in nearly every field of philosophy, especially metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.
The term "tripartite system" is commonly ascribed to French Enlightenment political philosopher Montesquieu, although he did not use such a term but referred to the "distribution" of powers. In The Spirit of Law (1748), [17] Montesquieu described the various forms of distribution of political power among a legislature, an executive, and a ...
Persian Letters (French: Lettres persanes) is a literary work, published in 1721, by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two fictional Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who spend several years in France under Louis XIV and the Regency.