Translations and Reprints From the Original Sources of European History, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Translations and Reprints From the Original Sources of European History, Vol. 6 Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu was born at the chateau of La Brede, ten miles from Bordeaux, in January, 1689. His title of Montesquieu came from his uncle, Jean Baptiste Secondat, who left to his nephew the important office of president à mortier in the Parlement of Bordeaux. His early years were studious and uneventful. His parents were in comfortable circumstances and his future assured. In 1713 he was admitted counsellor of the Parlement. In 1716, upon the death of Jean Baptiste, he succeeded to the uncle´s name, fortune and judicial position. In 1726 Montesquieu sold the life tenure of his presidency, with reversion to his son; and for the remainder of his life devoted himself to travel and literary work. He died on the 10th of February, 1755. Montesquieu´s chief literary works are the Lettres Persanes, a work of the earlier years of his presidency; Considerations sur les Causes de la Grandeur et la Dicadence des Romains, which appeared anonymously in 1734, at Amsterdam; and the Esprit des Lois, his most serious production and the source of his enduring fame, published at Geneva in 1748. The most important biography of Montesquieu is by Louis Viau (Vie de Montesquieu, 2d ed., Paris, 1879). Cf. Lowell: Eve of the French Revolution, Cap. X. The best edition of Montesquieu´s works is by B. Laboulaye, 7 vols., Paris, 1875-79. Cf., in English, The Spirit of the Laws, translated by Thomas Nugent, 2 vols., London, 1878. The Persian Letters Letter XXXVII. Usbek to Ibben in Smyrna. The king of France is an old man. We have no instance in our history of a monarch that has reigned so long. They say he possesses to an extraordinary degree the talent of making himself obeyed. He governs with the same ability his family, his court, his state. He has often been heard to say that of all the governments of the world, that of the Turks or that of our own august sultan pleased him most, so greatly he affected the oriental style of politics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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