Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
All links verified on or after March 16, 2017
List of Works
[Persian Letters]
[Principles of Government]
[Spirit of Laws]
Persian Letters (1721) [HTR]
- HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at The College of William and Mary (Translated by John Davidson)
Available at Amazon.Com:
- Paperback edition, translated by C.J. Betts (Penguin, 1977, 341 pg).
[Top of page]
Principles of Government [GBF]
- Excerpts from Spirit of Laws, probably from the third book, "Of the Principles of the Three Kinds of Government", or perhaps just the second chapter of that book, "Of the Principle of Different Governments".
[Top of page]
Spirit of Laws (1748) [GBF,GBWW,GI,HTR]
- HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at The Constitution Society (Translated by Thomas Nugent; revised by J.V. Prichard)
- Text file (1,542KB) at The Constitution Society (Translated by Thomas Nugent; revised by J.V. Prichard)
Available at Amazon.Com:
- Paperback edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, 1989, 757 pg).
- Audio Cassette edition (Blackstone Audio Books, 1997).
[Top of page]