• (Montesquieu 1989: preface) The Spirit of the Laws took Montesquieu twenty years to write and was first published in Geneva in 1748.
  • Written and researched by the Baron of Montesquieu over the course of decades, The Spirit of the Laws is the culmination of a lifetime of study in civics, politics...
  • Treatise by the French philosopher Charles de Montesquieu "On the Spirit of Laws" is one of the most famous works of the author.
  • Unlike Darwin’s magnum opus, however, The Spirit of the Laws is full of humour, so much so that Montesquieu had to check himself, “lest I should be...
  • The Spirit of Laws, Baron de Montesquieu (1751). Extremely scarce early edition of one of the most influential books of the 18th century.
  • How to cite “The spirit of laws” by Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat,Baron de APA citation. 12 Such are the sumptuary laws proper for monarchies.
  • Montesquieu’s immortal work on the Spirit of Laws, could not fail, of course, to furnish matter for profound consideration.
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  • While the title of Montesquieu's greatest oeuvre, The Spirit of the Laws, identifies the subject of the work, it nevertheless remains obscure.