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    The Spirit of Law (French: De l'esprit des lois, originally spelled De l'esprit des loix), also known in English as The Spirit of [the] Laws, is a treatise...
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  • Marcella (2002). Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600-1966. Médiaspaul. p. 116. ISBN 9782894205228. De Bujanda, Jesús Martínez;...
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    Montesquieu published De l'esprit des Lois, in 1748. Voltaire published le Siecle de Louis XIV and l'Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations, in 1756...
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    in a secular sense in his most celebrated chapter (Chapter XI) of De L'Esprit des Lois (1748). In his Discourse on Political Economy, Rousseau explicitly...
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    Sir County Nice, or Shakespeare's Macbeth, but also Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois, it is indeed the marvellous tales of antiquity, the epics of Homer...
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    it become a popular and widely used word, thanks to Montesquieu's De L'Esprit des Lois ("The Spirit of the Laws"). The coined word feudal derives from an...
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    composed the table of contents for a 1749 edition of Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois (The Spirit of Law). He was fortunate when his novel Les Mœurs was...
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    Montesquieu's De L'Esprit des Lois (1748; published in English as The Spirit of Law), and Henri de Boulainvilliers's Histoire des anciens Parlements de France...
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  • Princeton: Princeton University Press. Montesquieu (2001) [1748]. De l'esprit des lois [The Spirit of Laws]. Translated by Nugent, Thomas. Batoche Books...
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    following excerpt from Chapter III of Book I of his masterpiece, De l'esprit des lois (1748; first translated by Thomas Nugent, 1750): [T]he political...
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