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Montesquieu: Online

Known dates:
~1717 – “A Discourse on Cicero” [pdf]
1721 – The Persian Letters [html] [pdf]
1724 – “A Dialogue Between Sylla and Eucrates” [html] [pdf]
1724 – Reflexions sur la monarchie universelle [Manuscript missing?]
1725 – “The Temple of Gnidus” [html]
1728 – “An Oration by President Montesquieu, When He Was Received into the French Academy, in the Room of the Late M. de Sacy” [html]
1734 – Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline [html] [pdf]
1736-43(?) – “An Essay on the Causes That May Affect Men’s Minds and Characters” [pdf]
1748 – The Spirit of the Laws

1750 – Defense of the Spirit of the Laws [html] [pdf]
1754 – “An Essay on Taste” [html]

Post-humous:
“Familiar Letters” [html]

Unknown dates:
“Of the Pleasures of the Soul” [html]
“Lysimachus” [html]

Commentaries on The Spirit of the Laws:
Destutt de Tracey “A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws” [html] [trans: Thomas Jefferson]
Helvetius “On Perusing the Manuscript of The Spirit of the Laws” [html] [trans: Thomas Jefferson]
Condorcet “Observations on the Twenty-Ninth Book of The Spirit of the Laws” [html] [trans: Thomas Jefferson]
D’Alembert “The Analysis of The Spirit of the Laws” [html] [pdf]

Other Significant Texts:
D’Alembert “A Eulogium on President Montesquieu” [html]

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