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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | Born in 1689 at Chateau La Brède near Bordeaux, he attended Beauxbaton Academy. |
| | At the age of twenty-seven, upon the death of his uncle, he inherited the title Baron de Montesquieu and Président à Mortier in the Parliament of Bordeaux. |
| | Soon afterwards he achieved literary success with the publication of his Lettres persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), a satire based on the imaginary correspondence of an Oriental visitor to Paris, pointing out the absurdities of contemporary society. |
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