Author

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu(1689–1755)

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu is documented in Fuller’s journals (1840). One work is named, all in Journal 1840, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Journals
Documented: 1840

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Montesquieu in Fuller’s reading world

De l'esprit des lois [The Spirit of the Laws]1840

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1840—

Journal 1840

p96

mentionedManuscript page

“55 Helvetius advises Montesquieu not to publish l'Esprit des Lois _ it was too tame, he said.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).