French social commentator and political thinker (1689–1755) This article is about the French philosopher. For other uses, see Montesquieu (disambiguation). MontesquieuPortrait by an anonymous artist, c. 1753–1794Born18 January 1689Château de la Brède, La Brède, Aquitaine, FranceDied10 February 1755(1755-02-10) (aged 66)Paris, FranceSpouse Jeanne de Lartigue ​(m. 1715)​Children3Era18th-century philosophyRegionWestern philosophySchoolEnlightenmentClassical liberalismMain interestsPolitical philosophyNotable ideasSeparation of state powers: executive, legislative, judicial; classification of systems of government based on their principles Signature Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl lwi də səɡɔ̃da baʁɔ̃ də la bʁɛd e də mɔ̃tɛskjø]; 18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu (US: /ˈmɒntəskjuː/,[1] UK also /ˌmɒntɛˈskjɜː/,[2] French: [mɔ̃tɛskjø]), was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher. 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.[3] His anonymously published The Spirit of Law (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. Biography[edit] Château de la Brède Montesquieu was born at the Château de la Brède in southwest France, 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Bordeaux.[4] His father, Jacques de Secondat (1654–1713), was a soldier with a long noble ancestry, including descent from Richard de la Pole, Yorkist claimant to the English crown. His mother, Marie Françoise de Pesnel (1665–1696), who died when Charles was seven, was an heiress who brought the title of Barony of La Brède to the Secondat family.[5] His family was of Huguenot origin.[6][7] After the death of his mother he was sent to the Catholic College of Juilly, a prominent school for the children of French nobility, where he remained from 1700 to 1711.[8] His father died in 1713 and he became a ward of his uncle, the Baron de Montesquieu.[9] He became a counselor of the Bordeaux Parlement in 1714. He showed preference for Protestantism[10][11] and in 1715 he married the Protestant Jeanne de Lartigue, who eventually bore him three children.[12] The Baron died in 1716, leaving him his fortune as well as his title, and the office of président à mortier in the Bordeaux Parlement,[13] a post that he would hold for twelve years. Montesquieu's early life was a time of significant governmental change. England had declared itself a constitutional monarchy in the wake of its Glorious Revolution (1688–1689), and joined with Scotland in the Union of 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. In France, the long-reigning Louis XIV died in 1715 and was succeeded by the five-year-old Louis XV. These national transformations had a great impact on Montesquieu; he would refer to them repeatedly in his work. Montesquieu's 1748 De l'Esprit des loix Montesquieu eventually withdrew from the practice of law to devote himself to study and writing. He achieved literary success with the publication of his 1721 Persian Letters (French: Lettres persanes), a satire representing society as seen through the eyes of two Persian visitors to Paris, cleverly criticizing absurdities of contemporary French society. The work was an instant classic and accordingly was immediately pirated. In 1722, he went to Paris and entered social circles with the help friends including the Duke of Berwick whom he had known when Berwick was military governor at Bordeaux. He also acquainted himself with the English politician Viscount Bolingbroke, some of whose political views were later reflected in Montesquieu's analysis of English constitution. In 1726 he sold his office, bored with the parlement and turning more toward Paris. In time, despite some impediments he was elected to the Académie Française in January 1728. In April 1728, with Berwick's nephew Lord Waldegrave as his traveling companion, Montesquieu embarked on a grand tour of Europe, during which he kept a journal. His travels included Austria and Hungary and a year in Italy. He went to England at the end of October 1729, in the company of Lord Chesterfield, where he was initiated into Freemasonry at the Horn Tavern Lodge in Westminster.[14] He remained in England until the spring of 1731, when he returned to La Brède. Outwardly he seemed to be settling down as a squire: he altered his park in the English fashion, made inquiries into his own genealogy, and asserted his seignorial rights. But he was continuously at work in his study, and his reflections on geography, laws and customs during his travels became the primary sources for his major works on political philosophy at this time.[15] He next published Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (1734), among his three best known books. He was to publish The Spirit of Law in 1748, quickly translated into English. It quickly rose to influence political thought profoundly in Europe and America. In France, the book met with an enthusiastic reception by many but was denounced by the Sorbonne and, in 1751, by the Catholic Church (Index of Prohibited Books). It received the highest praise from much of the rest of Europe, especially Britain. Lettres familières à divers amis d'Italie, 1767 Montesquieu was also highly regarded in the British colonies in North America as a champion of liberty. According to a survey of late eighteenth-century works by political scientist Donald Lutz, Montesquieu was the most frequently quoted authority on government and politics in colonial pre-revolutionary British America, cited more by the American founders than any source except for the Bible.[16] Following the American Revolution, his work remained a powerful influence on many of the American founders, most notably James Madison of Virginia, the "Father of the Constitution". Montesquieu's philosophy that "government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another"[17] reminded Madison and others that a free and stable foundation for their new national government required a clearly defined and balanced separation of powers. Montesquieu was troubled by a cataract and feared going blind. At the end of 1754 he visited Paris and was soon taken ill, and died from a fever on 10 February 1755. He was buried in the Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris. Philosophy of history[edit] Montesquieu's philosophy of history minimized the role of individual persons and events. He expounded the view in Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline, that each historical event was driven by a principal movement: It is not chance that rules the world. Ask the Romans, who had a continuous sequence of successes when they were guided by a certain plan, and an uninterrupted sequence of reverses when they followed another. There are general causes, moral and physical, which act in every monarchy, elevating it, maintaining it, or hurling it to the ground. All accidents are controlled by these causes. And if the chance of one battle—that is, a particular cause—has brought a state to ruin, some general cause made it necessary for that state to perish from a single battle. In a word, the main trend draws with it all particular accidents.[18] In discussing the transition from the Republic to the Empire, he suggested that if Caesar and Pompey had not worked to usurp the government of the Republic, other men would have risen in their place. The cause was not the ambition of Caesar or Pompey, but the ambition of man. 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Indeed, the French political anthropologist Georges Balandier considered Montesquieu to be "the initiator of a scientific enterprise that for a time performed the role of cultural and social anthropology".[19] According to social anthropologist D. F. Pocock, Montesquieu's The Spirit of Law was "the first consistent attempt to survey the varieties of human society, to classify and compare them and, within society, to study the inter-functioning of institutions."[20] "Émile Durkheim," notes David W. Carrithers, "even went so far as to suggest that it was precisely this realization of the interrelatedness of social phenomena that brought social science into being."[21] Montesquieu's political anthropology gave rise to his influential view that forms of government are supported by governing principles: virtue for republics, honor for monarchies, and fear for despotisms. American founders studied Montesquieu’s views on how the English achieved liberty by separating executive, legislative, and judicial powers, and when Catherine the Great wrote her Nakaz (Instruction) for the Legislative Assembly she had created to clarify the existing Russian law code, she avowed borrowing heavily from Montesquieu's Spirit of Law, although she discarded or altered portions that did not support Russia's absolutist bureaucratic monarchy.[22] Montesquieu's most influential work divided French society into three classes (or trias politica, a term he coined): the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the commons.[clarification needed] Montesquieu saw two types of governmental power existing: the sovereign and the administrative. The administrative powers were the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. These should be separate from and dependent upon each other so that the influence of any one power would not be able to exceed that of the other two, either singly or in combination. This was a radical idea because it does not follow the three Estates structure of the French Monarchy: the clergy, the aristocracy, and the people at large represented by the Estates-General, thereby erasing the last vestige of a feudalistic structure. The theory of the separation of powers largely derives from The Spirit of Law: In every state there are three kinds of power: the legislative authority, the executive authority for things that stem from the law of nations, and the executive authority for those that stem from civil law. By virtue of the first, the prince or magistrate enacts temporary or perpetual laws, and amends or abrogates those that have been already enacted. By the second, he makes peace or war, sends or receives embassies, establishes the public security, and provides against invasions. By the third, he punishes criminals, or determines the disputes that arise between individuals. The latter we shall call the judiciary power, and the other, simply, the executive power of the state. — The Spirit of Law, XI, 6. Montesquieu argues that each power should only exercise its own functions; he is quite explicit here: When in the same person or in the same body of magistracy the legislative authority is combined with the executive authority, there is no freedom, because one can fear lest the same monarch or the same senate make tyrannical laws in order to carry them out tyrannically. Again there is no freedom if the authority to judge is not separated from the legislative and executive authorities. If it were combined with the legislative authority, power over the life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislator. If it were combined with the executive authority, the judge could have the strength of an oppressor. All would be lost if the same man or the same body of principals, or of nobles, or of the people, exercised these three powers: that of making laws, that of executing public resolutions, and that of judging crimes or disputes between individuals. — The Spirit of Law, XI, 6. If the legislative branch appoints the executive and judicial powers, as Montesquieu indicated, there will be no separation or division of its powers, since the power to appoint carries with it the power to revoke. The executive authority must be in the hands of a monarch, for this part of the government, which almost always requires immediate action, is better administrated by one than by several, whereas that which depends on the legislative authority is often better organized by several than by one person alone. If there were no monarch, and the executive authority were entrusted to a certain number of persons chosen from the legislative body, that would be the end of freedom, because the two authorities would be combined, the same persons sometimes having, and always in a position to have, a role in both. — The Spirit of Law, XI, 6. Montesquieu identifies three main forms of government, each supported by a social "principle": monarchies (free governments headed by a hereditary figure, e.g. king, queen, emperor), which rely on the principle of honor; republics (free governments headed by popularly elected leaders), which rely on the principle of virtue; and despotisms (unfree), headed by despots which rely on fear. The free governments are dependent on constitutional arrangements that establish checks and balances. Montesquieu devotes one chapter of The Spirit of Law to a discussion of how the England's constitution sustained liberty (XI, 6), and another to the realities of English politics (XIX, 27). As for France, the intermediate powers (including the nobility) the nobility and the parlements had been weakened by Louis XIV, and welcomed the strenthening of parlementary power in 1715. Montesquieu advocated reform of slavery in The Spirit of Law, specifically arguing that slavery was inherently wrong because all humans are born equal,[23] but that it could perhaps be justified within the context of climates with intense heat, wherein laborers would feel less inclined to work voluntarily.[23] As part of his advocacy he presented a satirical hypothetical list of arguments for slavery. In the hypothetical list, he'd ironically list pro-slavery arguments without further comment, including an argument stating that sugar would become too expensive without the free labor of slaves.[23] While addressing French readers of his General Theory, John Maynard Keynes described Montesquieu as "the real French equivalent of Adam Smith, the greatest of your economists, head and shoulders above the physiocrats in penetration, clear-headedness and good sense (which are the qualities an economist should have)."[24] Meteorological climate theory[edit] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Montesquieu" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Another example of Montesquieu's anthropological thinking, outlined in The Spirit of Law and hinted at in Persian Letters, is his meteorological climate theory, which holds that climate may substantially influence the nature of man and his society, a theory also promoted by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. By placing an emphasis on environmental influences as a material condition of life, Montesquieu prefigured modern anthropology's concern with the impact of material conditions, such as available energy sources, organized production systems, and technologies, on the growth of complex socio-cultural systems. He goes so far as to assert that certain climates are more favorable than others, the temperate climate of France being ideal. His view is that people living in very warm countries are "too hot-tempered", while those in northern countries are "icy" or "stiff". The climate of middle Europe is therefore optimal. On this point, Montesquieu may well have been influenced by a similar pronouncement in The Histories of Herodotus, where he makes a distinction between the "ideal" temperate climate of Greece as opposed to the overly cold climate of Scythia and the overly warm climate of Egypt. This was a common belief at the time, and can also be found within the medical writings of Herodotus' times, including the "On Airs, Waters, Places" of the Hippocratic corpus. One can find a similar statement in Germania by Tacitus, one of Montesquieu's favorite authors. Philip M. Parker, in his book Physioeconomics (MIT Press, 2000), endorses Montesquieu's theory and argues that much of the economic variation between countries is explained by the physiological effect of different climates. From a sociological perspective, Louis Althusser, in his analysis of Montesquieu's revolution in method,[25] alluded to the seminal character of anthropology's inclusion of material factors, such as climate, in the explanation of social dynamics and political forms. Examples of certain climatic and geographical factors giving rise to increasingly complex social systems include those that were conducive to the rise of agriculture and the domestication of wild plants and animals. Memorialization[edit] Between 1981 and 1994, a depiction of Monetesquieu appeared on the 200 French franc note.[26] Montesquieu on the 200 French franc note Since 1989, the annual Montesquieu prize has been awarded by the French Association of Historians of Political Ideas for the best French-language thesis on the history of political thought.[27] On Europe Day 2007, the Montesquieu Institute opened in The Hague, the Netherlands, with a mission to advance research and education on the parliamentary history and political culture of the European Union and its member states.[28] The Montesquieu tower in Luxembourg was completed in 2008 as an addition to the headquarters of the Court of Justice of the European Union.[29] The building houses many of the institution's translation services. Until 2019, it stood, with its sister tower, Comenius, as the tallest building in the country.[29] Chronology and principal works[edit] 1689 18 January: Birth of Charles Louis de Secondat at La Brède, son of Jacques de Secondat and Marie Françoise de Pesnel. 1700–1705: Schooling along with two cousins at the Oratorian school in Juilly, near Paris, where he received a classical education. 1705–1708: Study of law in Bordeaux 1709–1713: Residence in Paris. 1713: Death of his father; Montesquieu returns to Bordeaux to assume role as head of family. 1714: Appointed counselor in the parliament of Bordeaux. 1715: Marriage to Jeanne de Lartigue, a Calvinist who brings him a substantial dowry. Spicilège (Gleanings, 1715 onward) 1716: Birth of a son, Jean-Baptiste; death of his uncle, from whom he inherits the title Baron de Montesquieu, and the office of judge (président à mortier) in the parlement. Reception as member of the royal academy in Bordeaux. 1718–1721: Memoirs and discourses at the Academy of Bordeaux (1718–1721): including discourses on such topics as echoes, the renal glands, the weight of bodies, the transparency of bodies, and on natural history, collected with introductions and critical apparatus in volumes 8 and 9 of Œuvres complètes, Oxford and Naples, 2003–2006. 1721: Persian Letters, translated into English the following year by John Ozell. 1725: Treatise on Duties; The Temple of Gnidus, a prose poem; Reflections on the Character of Certain Princes (?); Discourse on Equity; first mention of the Dialogue between Sulla and Eucrates. 1726: Sale of the usufruct of Montesquieu’s parlementary office. 1727: Montesquieu begins a compilation called Mes Pensées (My Thoughts) which he will draw on in various writings for the rest of his life. 1728: Election to the Académie française. 1728 (April)–1729 (Oct.): Travels in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Germany, and Holland (composition of his Travels). 1729 (Nov.) –1731 (spring): Visit to England; composition of Notes on England. 1731–1733: Residence at La Brède. 1734": Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and on their decline; Reflections on Universal Monarchy in Europe; Reflections on the character of certain princes. Montesquieu rents an apartment in the Rue Saint Dominique (faubourg Saint Germain) which he will occupy until his death. 1735–1739: Histoire véritable (True Story); revision of the chapter entitled "On the English Constitution" (The Spirit of Law, XI, 6). 1739–1748: Composition of The Spirit of Law. 1742: First version of Arsace and Ismania, a novel. 1745: Publication of Dialogue between Sulla and Eucrates. 1748 (July): Second edition of Considerations on the Romans; (August) Montesquieu definitively sells his office of président which his son declines to assume; (Nov.) Publication in Geneva of The Spirit of Law. 1749–1751: Battle of The Spirit of Law: (1750) Defense of The Spirit of Law; the Sorbonne (theology faculty) cites 13 propositions in it that should be condemned; (1751) condemnation by the Roman Index. 1750: The Spirit of Laws, English translation of L'Esprit des lois by Thomas Nugent. 1751–1754: Prepares corrections and some additions for Persian Letters, The Spirit of Law, etc. 1755: 10 February: Death in Paris. 1757: Essai sur le goût (Essay on Taste) published in the Encyclopédie. 1758: Posthumous, partially revised edition of his works overseen by his son. 1998–  : critical edition of Montesquieu's works published by the Société Montesquieu. As of June 2023, all but five of the planned 22 volumes have appeared. Works available in English translation[edit] The Complete Works of M. de Montesquieu, trans. Thomas Nugent, London: T. Evans and W. Davis, 1777, 4 vols. Includes The Spirit of Law, Considerations on […] the Romans, Persian Letters, letters, Essay on Taste, The Temple of Gnidus, Defense of the Spirit of Law. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/montesquieu-complete-works-4-vols-1777 The Works of M. de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, 3 vols., London: Vernor and Hood, 1800. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102110886 The Temple of Gnidus with Cephisa and Cupid and Arsaces and Ismenia, trans. John Sayer, London: Vizetelly [1889]. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100769287 The Personal and the Political: three fables by Montesquieu (The Temple of Cnidus, Lysimachus, and Dialogue de Sylla et d’Eucrate), bilingual edition by William B. Allen, Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, fourth edition, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1758. https://archive.org/details/reflectionsoncau00mont/page/n6 Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Oxford: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. https://archive.org/details/reflectionsonca00montgoog/page/n7 Considerations on the causes of the grandeur and decadence of the Romans, trans. Jehu Baker, New York: D. Appleton, 1882. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100769779; https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028288722#page/n5/mode/2up Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline, trans. David Lowenthal, New York: Free Press, 1965; Indianapolis: Hackett, 1999. Persian Letters (Lettres persanes). There are several English translations, only two of which use the same reference system as the OC edition (based on the original edition of 1721): trans. Margaret Mauldon, Oxford World Classics, 2008, and trans. Philip Stewart, 2020, open access: https://montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?article3494. The Spirit of Laws, English translation by Thomas Nugent. There were numerous editions (and variations) of this translation published over the next two-plus centuries. The Spirit of Laws : a compendium of the first English edition, edited, with introduction, notes, and appendixes, by David Wallace Carrithers, with An essay on causes affecting minds and characters, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. The Spirit of the Laws, trans. Anne M. Cohler, Basia C. Miller, and Harold S. Stone, Cambridge University Press, 1989. The Spirit of Law, trans. Philip Stewart, 2018. Open access: http://montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?rubrique186 My Thoughts (Mes pensées), trans. Henry C. Clark, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2012. On line: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/montesquieu-my-thoughts-mes-pensees-1720-2012 Discourses, Dissertations, and Dialogues on Science, Politics, and Religion, trans. David Carrithers and Philip Stewart, introduction and notes by David Carrithers, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. General studies in English[edit] Emile Durkheim, Montesquieu and Rousseau, Forerunners of Sociology, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961. David W. Carrithers and Patrick Coleman (eds.), Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity, (SVEC 2002:09), Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. Rebecca E. Kingston, ed., Montesquieu and His Legacy, Albany: SUNY Press, 2009. Domenico Felice, Montesquieu: an Introduction, Mila-Udine: Mimesis International, 2018. Keegan Callanan and Sharon Ruth Krause (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu, Cambridge University Press, 2023. The Spirit of Law[edit] Sheila Mason, Montesquieu’s Idea of Justice, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975. Mark Hulliung, Montesquieu and the Old Regime, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. Stephen J. Rosow, "Commerce, Power and Justice: Montesquieu on international politics", Review of Politics 46, no. 3 (July 1984): 346–366. Anne M. Cohler, Montesquieu’s Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism, Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 1988. Thomas L. Pangle, Montesquieu’s Philosophy of Liberalism: a commentary on "The Spirit of the Laws", Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. David W. Carrithers, "Montesquieu’s philosophy of punishment", History of Political Thought 19 (1998), p. 213-240. David W. Carrithers, Michael A. Mosher, and Paul A. Rahe, eds., Montesquieu’s Science of Politics: essays on "The Spirit of Laws", Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. Robert Howse, "Montesquieu on Commerce, War, and Peace", Brookings Journal of International Law 31, no. 3 (2006): 693–708. Paul A. Rahe, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Andrea Radasanu, "Montesquieu on Moderation, Monarchy and Reform", History of Political Thought 31, no. 2 (2010): 283–307. Rolando Minuti, Studies on Montesquieu: mapping political diversity, Cham (Switzerland): Springer, 2018. (Translation by Julia Weiss of Una geografia politica della diversità: studi su Montesquieu, Naples, Liguori, 2015.) Andrew Scott Bibby, Montesquieu’s Political Economy, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Joshua Bandoch, The Politics of Place: Montesquieu, particularism, and the pursuit of liberty, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017. Vickie B. Sullivan, Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe: an interpretation of "The Spirit of the laws", University of Chicago Press, 2017. Keegan Callanan, Montesquieu’s Liberalism and the Problem of Universal Politics, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Sharon R. Krause, The Rule of Law in Montesquieu, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Vicki V. Sullivan, "Montesquieu on Slavery" in K. Callanan, The Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu, p. 182-197. See also[edit] Environmental determinism Liberalism List of abolitionist forerunners List of political systems in France List of liberal theorists Napoleon Politics of France Jean-Baptiste de Secondat (1716–1796), his son U.S. Constitution, influences Bibliography of the United States Constitution — Contains numerous works regarding Montesqui's influence on American constitutionalism. Portals: Philosophy Law France References[edit] Notes[edit] ^ "Montesquieu" Archived 21 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ^ Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0. ^ Boesche 1990, p. 1. ^ "Bordeaux · France". Bordeaux · France. ^ Sorel, A. Montesquieu. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1887 (Ulan Press reprint, 2011), p. 10. ASIN B00A5TMPHC ^ Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752. OUP Oxford. 12 October 2006. 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