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Baron de Montesquieu  

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  • Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, was an aristocratic owner of Bordeaux vineyards and, along with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the two philosophers who defined the contours of the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment. Born Charles-Louis de Secondat, he inherited from an uncle the lands around the village of Montesquieu and a seat on the provincial court, the Parlement de Bordeaux. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Montesquieu, Baron de]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-QBHF4FMR-G

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