Collection The classical authors
Montesquieu
French jurist and philosopher, 1689-1755
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu.
Works
- Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline (Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence, 1734)
- Defense of the Spirit of the Laws (Défense de l'Esprit des lois, 1750)
- Essay on Taste (Essai sur le goût, 1757). Written for the Encyclopédie, where it appeared after the author's death.
- My Thoughts (Mes pensées). Notebooks published in 1899-1901.
- Persian Letters (Lettres persanes, 1721). Anonymous.
- The Spirit of the Laws (De l'esprit des lois, 1748). Published anonymously in Geneva.
- The Temple of Gnidus (Le temple de Gnide, 1725)