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Like Montesquieu, Locke advocated for a separation of governmental powers in which the legislative, not the executive, would be supreme.

These politicians were drawing on the writings of Enlightenment intellectuals such as Montesquieu and John Locke, studying historical examples from ancient Greece and Rome, and embracing key elements of English governance and common law.

The genius of Montesquieu is that he uses human frailties and impulses to check and balance each other.

As well as inspiring a scene in Rostand's play, the novel also anticipates the various philosophical travel narratives of Montesquieu, Jonathan Swift, and Voltaire in the following century.

“But it’s particularly sad when it happens in France which, thanks to Montesquieu, is considered the country of justice. I’m now hopeful that justice will be rendered.’