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Three letters of M. de Montesquieu to M. le Chevalier de Bruant

1770 Subjects: Politics and government Forms: Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. Translation Status: Integral English Dublin URL

Contributions

Thomas Francklin
translator
Urie, Robert
publisher

Related resources

is part of
Letters of M. de Voltaire, to several of his friends. Translated from the French by the Rev. T. Franklin translation
has other edition
A melancholy lesson for Englishmen. A letter from the author of L'Esprit des Loix to M. le Chevalier de Bruant (from Voltaire's Letters) translation

Notes

The letters originally appeared in a volume with correspondence by Voltaire and were attributed by the editor to Montesquieu. The attribution is contested. See Cathérine Volpilhac-Auger, 'Works and writings attributed to Montesquieu', in: A Montesquieu Dictionary http://dictionnaire-montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/en/article/1378157061/en/.