Lettres persanes

by Montesquieu, edited by Philip Stewart

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Extent: 490 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Classiques Jaunes

Series volume number: 630

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2013)

ISBN: 9782812408526

Price: $23.00

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Two Persians arrive in Paris in 1711 to observe how the French live. Under the covers of this simple story, Usbek and Rica produce a satirical portrait of a society at the dying end of a reign and during the Regency, casting a simultaneously naive and critical look on numerous French and Persian institutions.


Two Persians arrive in Paris in 1711 to observe how the French live. Under the covers of this simple story, Usbek and Rica produce a satirical portrait of a society at the dying end of a reign and during the Regency, casting a simultaneously naive and critical look on numerous French and Persian institutions.

  • By (author) Montesquieu
  • Edited by Philip Stewart