Charles-Louis Montesquieu: His Life, Scientific and Literary Activity

These biographical essays were published about a hundred years ago as a separate book in the “Lives of Remarkable People” series carried out by F. F. Pavlenkov (1839–1900). Written in a genre new to that time—poetic chronicle and historical-cultural research—these texts still preserve informational and energy-psychological value. “Written for ordinary people,” for the Russian provinces, today they can be recommended not only to bibliophiles, but to a very wide reading audience: both for those who are not at all acquainted with the history and psychology of great people, and for those for whom these subjects are a profession.