Qui a soutenue et protégée Montesquieu ?

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu French: 18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher.

Montesquieu

Charles Montesquieu.

Portrait by an anonymous artist, 1753-1794

Born

18 January 1689

Château de la Brède, La Brède, Aquitaine, France

Died

10 February 1755 (aged 66)

Paris, France

Era

18th-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Enlightenment

Classical liberalism

Main interests

Political philosophy

Notable ideas

Separation of state powers: executive, legislative, judicial; classification of systems of government based on their principles

Influences

Aristotle[1] Cicero, Thomas Hobbes, Polybius, René Descartes, Nicolas Malebranche, Jean Bodin, John Locke, 18th-century English constitution

Influenced

David Hume, Thomas Paine, Rousseau, Edmund Burke, United States Constitution and political system, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexis de Tocqueville, Émile Durkheim, Hannah Arendt, Adam Ferguson, Jean de Sismondi, Prosper de Barante

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.

He is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world. He is also known for doing more than any other author to secure the place of the word "despotism" in the political lexicon.[4] His anonymously published The Spirit of the Laws (1748), which was received well in both Great Britain and the American colonies, influenced the Founding Fathers of the United States in drafting the U.S. Constitution.