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  • Chapter 6 - A New Departure (1731–1738)

  • Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
  • Edited and translated by Philip Stewart, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    Montesquieu
    Published online:
    30 November 2022
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 147-170

  • Summary

    Montesquieu’s book inheritance and collection. Registers of fragments and thoughts for future elaboration: the Spicilège and Mes pensées. Book on the rise and fall of the Roman empire (1734). Shorter writings on heads of state and universal monarchy.

  • Chapter 5 - Europe on the Horizon (1728–1731)

  • Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
  • Edited and translated by Philip Stewart, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    Montesquieu
    Published online:
    30 November 2022
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 115-146

  • Summary

    Social and cultural interests leading to project for extensive travel, first in central Europe and then extended stay in England. Initiation to art and recording of travels and observations of both art and architecture; also commentary on various political systems. Particular interest in theatre, opera, and the English Constitution. English exceptionalism.

  • Chapter 3 - From Secondat to Montesquieu (1713–1721)

  • Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
  • Edited and translated by Philip Stewart, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    Montesquieu
    Published online:
    30 November 2022
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 54-77

  • Summary

    Accession to full title of Baron de Montesquieu. The Bordeaux parlement. Negotiations for his marriage with Jeanne de Lartigue. The inherited position of président à mortier. Observance of legal matters and study of Romans and of the sciences. His secret composition and anonymous publication of Persian Letters (1721). The subject matter and the fame of this book.

  • Chapter 8 - The March to Glory (1749–1755)

  • Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
  • Edited and translated by Philip Stewart, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    Montesquieu
    Published online:
    30 November 2022
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 192-216

  • Summary

    Publication in Geneva of The Spirit of Law (1748); its distribution and reactions from religious (particularly Jesuit and Jansensist milieux) and governmental sources. Defense of The Spirit of Law. The struggle to avoid condemnation in Paris and Rome. Rereading of Persian Letters and The Spirit of Law in the early 1750s. Project of publication of complete works.

  • Chapter 4 - Taking Wing (1722–1727)

  • Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
  • Edited and translated by Philip Stewart, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    Montesquieu
    Published online:
    30 November 2022
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 78-114

  • Summary

    The years spent in Paris spanning the death of Louis XIV and the Regency of Philippe d’Orléans. Montesquieu’s social contacts and literary interests. Sale of his office and unexpected departure from parlement in 1726. Consolidation of his fortune and social position.

Montesquieu
  • Let There Be Enlightenment
  • Catherine Volpilhac-Auger
  • Edited and translated by Philip Stewart
  • Published online:
    30 November 2022
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023
  • Since the last biography of Montesquieu in English (Shackleton, Oxford, 1961) Montesquieu scholarship has been entirely renewed, culminating in a critical edition of his complete works in twenty-two volumes that is nearing completion. Since 1998, this new edition of the complete works has considerably modified what was known about Montesquieu and his procedures, eliciting new translations and further studies. Additionally, several thousand manuscript pages were made public in 1994 and continue to generate further scholarly inquiry. The author of this compact biography, originally published by Gallimard 2017, is the director of the critical edition of the works and the most qualified scholar of Montesquieu. At once an introduction to Montesquieu's thought and a synthesis of current knowledge about his life and work, this book is full of insights and revised judgements about Montesquieu and how his political philosophy helped thrust Enlightenment onto the European agenda.

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