Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755), a leading figure in the French Enlightenment, began his career studying and then practicing law. With the acquisition of his ...
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One of the most notorious features of the French ancien régime was the practice of venality of office -- that is, the buying and selling of state offices that often served as a ticket into the ...
Reading the eminent 19th century French Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu's "Persian Letters," where the author used two travelers from afar to criticize many aspects of French society, I found it ...
This Journal is dedicated to the great philosophers of the past. Yet it also deals with important contemporary issues and the essential questions that have served as a constant source of inspiration ...
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New Literary History, Vol. 48, No. 3 (SUMMER 2017), pp. 483-502 (20 pages) Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, trans. Thomas Nugent (New York: Hafner, 1949), lxvii, lxix (hereafter cited as ...
"If I knew something useful to my family and not to my country, I would try to forget it," the French Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu argued. "If I knew something useful to my country and ...
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