Robert Shackleton
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Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford, 1979β86; Bodley's Librarian, 1966β79. Author of Montesquieu: A Critical Biography.
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Montesquieu was a French political philosopher whose principal work, The Spirit of Laws, was a major contribution to political theory. Montesquieuβs father, Jacques de Secondat, belonged to an old military family of modest wealth that had been ennobled in the 16th century for services to the crown,β¦
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