OGER-BLANCHET
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MONTESQUIEU] - Défense de l'esprit des loix, à laquelle on a…
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607
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MONTESQUIEU] - Défense de l'esprit des loix, à laquelle on a…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
MONTESQUIEU] - Défense de l'esprit des loix, à laquelle on a joint quelques éclaircissemens. Genève, Barrillot et fils, 1750, in-12, 207 pp, provenance washed on title page and flyleaf, original marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated.
TCH. IV, 931. First edition. Montesquieu instructed the Duc de Nivernais, French ambassador to Rome, to distribute his brochure and present it to the Pope. At his urging, Benedict XIV forbade the Congregation to give a ruling. Montesquieu wrote to Mme du Deffand: ''What pleases me in my Defence is not to see the venerable theologians brought to the ground, but to see them gently sinking into it.
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