WorkCharles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

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

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

Mentioned

Documented 1840

Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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 work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

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).