Montesquieu,
(Baron de la Brède et de) (born Charles Louis de Secondat) 1689-1755; Fr. jurist & political philosopher
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(mŏnˈtə-skyo͞oˌ, môɴ-tĕ-skyœˈ) Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu. Title of Charles de Secondat. 1689-1755.
French philosopher and jurist. An outstanding figure of the early French Enlightenment, he wrote the influential Persian Letters (1721), a veiled attack on the monarchy and the ancien régime, and The Spirit of the Laws (1748), a discourse on government.