Montesquieu

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède and de Montesquieu, was born on 18 January 1689 at the château de La Brède, near Bordeaux. A pupil at the Oratorian college of Juilly, he studied law and inherited from his uncle, together with his title, the office of président à mortier in the parlement of Bordeaux, which he later sold. Elected to the Académie française in 1728, he then travelled across Europe and spent nearly eighteen months in England. His great treatise of 1748 was placed on the Index in 1751. He died in Paris on 10 February 1755.

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