[mon-tuh-skyoo; Fr. mawn-tes-kyœ] 
(Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu ) 1689–1755, French philosophical writer. |
| Mon·tes·quieu (mŏn'tə-skyōō', môɴ-tě-skyɶ') French philosopher and jurist. An outstanding figure of the early French Enlightenment, he wrote the influential Persian Letters (1721), a veiled attack on the monarchy and the ancien régime, and The Spirit of the Laws (1748), a discourse on government. |