Description of a Parisian parliament in the year 1720, such as Parliaments ought to be. From the Persian Letters
Authors of source text
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron La Brède and Montesquieu
Contributions
- John Ozell
- translator
- Thomas Spence
- publisher
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- Persian letters. Translated by Mr. Ozell translation has other edition
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- One pennyworth of pig's meat or, Lessons for the swinish multitude. Collected by the poor man's advocate, in the course of his reading for more than twenty years. Intended to promote among the labouring part of mankind proper ideas of their situation, of their importance, and of their rights And to convince them that their forlorn condition has not been entirely overlooked and forgotten, nor their just cause unpleaded, neither by their maker not by the best and most enlightened of men in all ages
Notes
Pigs' meat, vol. 2 (1794), p. 117. Fragment of n. 137 of the Persian letters, about the banishment of the Parliament of Paris in 1720. It is taken from John Ozell's translation, first published in 1730. The fragment justifies parliament's role as a necessary check on monarchy.