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“[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.”

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Baron de Montesquieu
Baron de Montesquieu

Baron de Montesquieu, a French Enlightenment thinker, jurist, historian, and politician, was born on January 18, 1689, and died on February 10, 1755. He is one of the most important thinkers in the history of Western political thought, known for his contributions to the theory of the separation of powers. more

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