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Named after the French lawyer and philosopher Montesquieu, Montesquieu University was the successor of the former Law and Economics Faculty, which origins go back as far as the 15th century. It incorporated long-standing teaching programmes and institutes which have an established reputation in the academic specialities of the university: law ...
The Parlementair Documentatie Centrum (PDC; English: Parliamentary Documentation Centre), is an institute connected to Leiden University that documents the parliamentary history of the Netherlands. It is part of the Montesquieu Institute on Campus The Hague, and situated at Lange Voorhout 86. [1]
Château de la Brède, Montesquieu's birthplace. Montesquieu was born at the Château de la Brède in southwest France, 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Bordeaux. [4] His father, Jacques de Secondat (1654–1713), was a soldier with a long noble ancestry, including descent from Richard de la Pole, Yorkist claimant to the English crown.
Montesquieu's treatise, already widely disseminated, had an enormous influence on the work of many others, most notably: Catherine the Great, who produced Nakaz (Instruction); the Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution; and Alexis de Tocqueville, who applied Montesquieu's methods to a study of American society, in Democracy in America.
Frontispiece and title page of 1748 edition. Initially, Montesquieu only intended on writing a few pages on the topic. [1] However, the size of his topic overwhelmed him, so he chose to expand the scope of his writing from the beginnings of the Roman Republic to the decay of the late Roman Empire. [1]
He conceived of ideology as the "science of ideas". The society of "ideologists" at Auteuil embraced, besides Cabanis and Tracy, Constantin-François de Chassebœuf, Comte de Volney and Dominique Joseph Garat, professor in the National Institute. [1] Along with some of these colleagues, he was a member of the cultural society Les Neuf Sœurs.
Montesquieu University - Bordeaux IV (Université Montesquieu – Bordeaux IV) [6] ENSEIRB (Ecole nationale supérieure d’électronique, informatique et radiocommunications de Bordeaux) ENSCPB (Ecole nationale supérieure de chimie et de physique de Bordeaux) Sciences Po Bordeaux (Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux) Bordeaux Sciences ...
Montesquieu University; E. École nationale supérieure d'électronique, informatique, télécommunications, mathématique et mécanique de Bordeaux ... Polytechnic ...