Montesquieu

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron o La Brède an o Montesquieu (/ˈmɒntᵻskjuː/; French: [mɔ̃tɛskjø]; 18 Januar 1689 – 10 Februar 1755), generally referred tae as simply Montesquieu, wis a French lawyer, man of letters, an political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.

Montesquieu
A painting of Montesquieu
Born	18 January 1689 Château de la Brède, La Brède, Aquitaine, France
Dee'd	10 Februar 1755(1755-02-10) (aged 66) Paris, France
Era	18th-century philosopher
Region	Western Philosophy
Schuil	Enlightenment
Main interests	Political Philosophy
Notable ideas	Separation of state powers: executive, legislative, judicial; clessification of systems of government based on their principles
Influences Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Hobbes, Polybius, René Descartes, Nicolas Malebranche, Jean Bodin, John Locke, 18th-century English constitution
Influenced David Hume, Thomas Paine, Rousseau, Edmund Burke, United States Constitution an political system, G.W.F Hegel, Alexis de Tocqueville, Émile Durkheim, Hannah Arendt