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Full name: Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

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Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, is generally known simply as Montesquieu. He was an influential Enlightenment social commentator and political thinker, still famous today for his philosophy of history and for his theory that the best government has clearly defined separation of powers.
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