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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, 1689-1755. Early modern French thinker, a cornerstone of Enlightenment thought. His greatest legacy today is in political philosophy, through his magnum opus The Spirit of the Laws.

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• - Outline of certain points in Montesquieu's teachings about liberty.
  
• - Biographical essay, portrait, and annotated links.
  
• - Entry from this openly-edited encyclopedia.
  
• - Detailed study of this writer's intellectual career, by Antoine Degert.
  
• - An 1811 commentary by Destutt de Tracy, from the English translation by Thomas Jefferson.
  
• - A review the widely-held belief that Montesquieu's doctrine of separation of powers had a scriptural basis.
  
• - Outline of the reception in Rome and Paris of the Persian Letters and The Spirit of the Laws.
  
• - Scholarly study of this key Enlightenment thinker by Hilary Bok. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  
• - Concise biographical paragraph.
  
• - A life in one paragraph.
  
• - Biographical timeline.
  
• - A short biography from the site of Liberal International.
  
  

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