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Montesquieu — Enlightenment magistrate and political thinker, theorist of the separation of powers
A président à mortier of the Bordeaux parlement turned political thinker, he made the comparison of regimes a method. His theory of the separation of powers passed, a few decades after him, into the constitutions of two revolutions. (Editorial synthesis)
Montesquieu was born on 18 January 1689. (source: Académie française and Larousse)
Montesquieu was born at the château de La Brède. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Montesquieu died on 10 February 1755. (source: Académie française)
Montesquieu died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
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