He distinguished between monarchical, republican, and despotic governments in his best-known work, which greatly influenced Locke and Jefferson.
This thinker believed that climate affected behavior, with those living in cold climates being vigorous, noble and trusting, and those in hot climates strong, mercurial, and passionate. This man wrote an epistolary work in which the behaviors of Europeans are at first comically misinterpreted by Usbek and Rica, who converse in the titular Persian Letters. He distinguished between monarchical, republican, and despotic governments in his best-known work, which greatly influenced Locke and Jefferson. FTP who is this Frenchman who articulated the "separation of powers" in his The Spirit of the Laws?
This thinker believed that climate affected behavior, with those living in cold climates being vigorous, noble and trusting, and those in hot climates strong, mercurial, and passionate.
Baron {Montesquieu} (Charles de {Secondat})