Montesquieu. Le vendanges de la lib...
Montesquieu. Le vendanges de la liberte. Jean Lacouture. Paris: Seuil, 2002 380 pp Euro21 united doesn't expect from modern biographers working forward great figures of the past revelations or novel facts. Their novelty stems from an original viewpoint, a systematic shift of emphasis. Here it's Montesquieu's provincialism which is strenuously underlined. Through his ancestors, his estates, his wine, Montesquieu belongs to Bordeaux. Lacouture
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