by Montesquieu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782081386679
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«Lettres persanes» is Montesquieu's epistolary novel, published by Flammarion in paperback (464 pages, in French).
Epistolary novel featuring two Persians, Usbek and Rica, who travel through Europe and stop in France under the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV. In their letters, Montesquieu portrays and criticizes with irony the society, politics and customs of eighteenth-century France.
This French edition is part of the GF collection and includes a dossier by Laurence Macé and an introduction by Laurent Versini; the work was originally published in 1721.
A classic of French literature, commonly read in high school and scientific preparatory courses, for those interested in eighteenth-century social satire.
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher.
