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MONTESQUIEU - De l'esprit des loix. Paris, Éditions Stéréotype d'après le procédé de Firmin Didot, de Pierre Didot l'ainé e, anXII (1804); in-18, 277 + 290 + 246 + 264 + 266 pp. stapled, in dust jacket. All 3 volumes. Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, famous 18th-century French political thinker and moralist, became president of the Bordeaux parliament after studying philosophy. With a passion for science, he began by publishing scientific works on subjects such as echo, glands and gravity, before turning to philosophy and literature. Montesquieu traveled widely and even became a mason. He published L'Esprit des Lois and began contributing to the Encyclopédie. He ended his life blind and died in 1755. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY
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MONTESQUIEU - De l'esprit des loix. Paris, Éditions Stéréotype d'après le procédé de Firmin Didot, de Pierre Didot l'ainé e, anXII (1804); in-18, 277 + 290 + 246 + 264 + 266 pp. stapled, in dust jacket. All 3 volumes. Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, famous 18th-century French political thinker and moralist, became president of the Bordeaux parliament after studying philosophy. With a passion for science, he began by publishing scientific works on subjects such as echo, glands and gravity, before turning to philosophy and literature. Montesquieu traveled widely and even became a mason. He published L'Esprit des Lois and began contributing to the Encyclopédie. He ended his life blind and died in 1755. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY
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