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The Spirit of the Laws — Montesquieu’s treatise on laws and governments, published without the author’s name in 1748
The fruit of fourteen to twenty years of work, printed by a bookseller who died during the printing and never learned the author’s name, having received the manuscript through a pastor. The title page bears neither name nor date. The book was placed on the Index on 29 November 1751 and censured by the Sorbonne. (Editorial synthesis)
The Spirit of the Laws was published in 1748. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Spirit of the Laws was published in Geneva. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded author of The Spirit of the Laws: Montesquieu.
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