by Montesquieu · Livre de poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253082224
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«Lettres Persanes» is Montesquieu's epistolary novel, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (444 pages, in French).
Usbek and Rica, two Persian nobles traveling to Paris, describe in their letters the customs, religion, politics and social life of eighteenth-century France. The distance of their foreign gaze turns the correspondence into a sharp, ironic satire of European society. The work was published anonymously in 1721.
This June 2006 edition belongs to the Classiques collection and was prepared by Paul Vernière.
Recommended for readers of French classics and students of literature, philosophy and eighteenth-century political thought.
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.
