MONTESQUIEU

Real name: Charles Louis de Secondat

Nationality: French

Born: La Brède, Gironda, 1689

Died: Paris, 1755

Profession: Writer

Important publications: Persian Letters, Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans, The Spirit of the Laws

Interesting facts: His mother was Marie Françoise de Pesnel. When Montesquieu was seven years old, his mother passed away. Since his mother was Barony of La Brede title, she bought it to her new Secondat family. His father was a soldier named Jacques de Secondat