Montesquieu

Thinkers' Name: Write a two paragraph Mini-Biography on your assigned Thinker. Your Mini-Biography shouls include: Birth and death dates, p lace of origin, chronological facts about his/her life, and any important or groundbreaking original works.

MINI-Biography: The Frist Satirist (writer using Sarcasm to Communicate his message), Insatiably curious and mordantly funny, Politcial and Social Philosopher, Montesqueiu was the frist of the great French scholars associated with the philosophical movement that rejectyed traditional social and religious ideas by placing reason as the most important ideal. Charles Louis de sSecondat, Baron de Montesquieu was born on January 18, 1689 at the castle of La Brede near Bordeau. His father was a soldier, his mother a women with large inheritance (heiress), who brought the tittle Barony (Baron) La Brede to the Secondat family. Montesquieu spent his early life among the peasants, he was born in the climate of discontent in France. King Louis the 14th (1638-1715) reignwas uncomfortable for the citizens. His inseccessful attemps to dictate religion and culture had bad effects on France. In 1700 Montesquieu recives a modern education, returning to Bordeaux in 1705 to study law, he was admitted to practice before the Bordeaux Parlement in 1708. The next five years wee spent in Paris continuing his studies. In 1715, he marries Jeanne de Lartigue a Prodestant, who brings him large sums of money when married, he inherits the tittle Barony of Montesquieu and Presidency of the Bordeaux Parliment after his uncle's death. Montesquieu had no interest in law but the spirit that layed behind it, he devoloped th spirit of the laws and The persian Letters. Montesquieu dies Febuary 10, 1755 during his trip th Paris

Answer the following questions:
== ~What events in this person’s life, from child to adulthood, shaped him or her? Charle Louis Mother dies when he was seven, working with peasants and the Kings attempts to dictate culture and religion explains Montesquieu curiosity and interest in law ==

~ What did this person do that was the highlight of their life? Montesquieu publishs The Spirit of the laws (1748) and the Peisian Letters (1721) and this.
== == == ~ Did this person do anything that was special and affected many others? This picture Above helped the english caputre African American (slaves) for their plantation. Montesquieu created the Spirit of Laws whiched helped end the French Revolution, and The Persian Letters. ==