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Montesquieu, Charles-Louis De Secondat De (1689–1755)
MONTESQUIEU, CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT DE (1689–1755), parlementary judge, historian, and political philosopher.
Montesquieu was born on 18 January 1689 at La Brède, near Bordeaux. His earliest education was with a local schoolmaster; in 1700 he was sent to an Oratorian institution near Paris emphasizing the classics.
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Between 1705 and 1708 he studied law at the University of Bordeaux, receiving a license in law and becoming an advocate at the Parlement of Bordeaux. From 1709 until 1713 he resided in Paris, attending meetings of the Academy of Science and the Academy of Inscriptions, compiling notebooks on Roman law, and becoming acquainted with such luminaries as Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and Nicolas Fréret.
Following the death of his father in 1713, he returned to La Brède to take charge of the family estates.
In 1715 he married Jeanne de Lartigue, a wealthy Huguenot from a nearby village who bor