id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7543 Montesquieu - Wikipedia .html text/html 7458 1271 67 Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Hobbes, Polybius, René Descartes, Nicolas Malebranche, Jean Bodin, John Locke, 18th-century English constitution David Hume, Thomas Paine, Rousseau, Edmund Burke, United States Constitution and political system, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexis de Tocqueville, Émile Durkheim, Hannah Arendt, Adam Ferguson, Jean de Sismondi, Prosper de Barante[1] His mother, Marie Françoise de Pesnel, who died when Charles was seven, was an heiress who brought the title of Barony of La Brède to the Secondat family.[5] After the death of his mother he was sent to the Catholic College of Juilly, a prominent school for the children of French nobility, where he remained from 1700 to 1711.[6] His father died in 1713 and he became a ward of his uncle, the Baron de Montesquieu.[7] He became a counselor of the Bordeaux Parliament in 1714. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7543.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7543.txt