Author:Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu

Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu
(1689–1755)

Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu

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Work

• The Causes of an Echo (Les Causes de l’écho)
• The Renal Glands (Les Glandes rénales)
• The Cause of Gravity of Bodies (La Cause de la pesanteur des corps)
• The Eternal Damnation of the Pagans (La Damnation éternelle des païens, 1711)
• System of Ideas (Système des idées, 1716)
• Persian Letters (Lettres persanes, 1721, translation and introduction by John Davidson, 1899) (external scan)
• The Temple of Gnide (Le Temple de Gnide, a novel; 1724)
• The True History of Arsace and Isménie (Arsace et Isménie, a novel; 1730)
• Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans (Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence, 1734)
• Remarks on Stones of a Regular Figure Found Near Bagneres in Gascony, 1744 (external scan)
• On the Spirit of the Laws (De l’esprit des lois, 1748, translation by Thomas Nugent and J. V. Prichard, 1750, Volume 1), [2]
• In Defence of “The Spirit of the Laws” (La Défense de « L’Esprit des lois », 1748)
• Essay concerning the natural laws & the distinction between Justice and Injustice, 1755 (external scan)
• Miscellaneous pieces of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, 1759
  • Eulogium on President Montesquieu, / by Monsieur d'Alembert -- The analysis of the Spirit of laws. / By M. d'Alembert -- An oration pronounced the 24th of January, 1728. / By President Montesquieu -- An essay upon taste -- New Persian letters -- The Temple of Gnidus -- A defence of the Spirit of laws. (external scan)
• A view of the English constitution, 1781 short work (external scan)
• Thoughts after Spicilège (Pensées suivies de Spicilège)
• Montesquieu's Considerations on the causes of the grandeur and decadence of the Romans, translated by Jehu Baker, 1882 (external scan)
• The temple of Gnidus; followed by Cephisa and Cupid, and Arsaces and Ismenia, 1889 (external scan)

Works about de Montesquieu

• Montesquieu; by Albert Sorel, translated by Gustave Masson, 1887 (external scan)
• Montesquieu (1904) by Courtenay Ilbert
• Montesquieu in History of political theories from Luther to Montesquieu by William Archibald Dunning, 1923 (external scan)
• Montesquieu and de Tocqueville and Corporative Individualism by William Henry George, 1922-02-01 from The American Political Science Review, Volume 16. (external scan)
• Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousseau in England by John Churton Collins, 1908 (external scan)
• The aesthetic doctrine of Montesquieu; by Edwin Preston Dargan, 1907 (external scan)