discussed in biography. In Montesquieu: Early life and career. publishing his Lettres persanes (Persian Letters, ), in which he gave a brilliant satirical portrait of French and particularly Parisian civilization, supposedly seen through the eyes of two Persian travellers. Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu) “Jokes in a serious work are acceptable on the condition that they hide a profound sense beneath a trivial form. It is in this way that Montesquieu, in his novel, Persian Letters, has written one of the most philosophical books of the eighteenth century.”. – Alexis de Tocqueville. Persian Letters is a literary work, written in , by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who are traveling through France. In Usbek leaves his seraglio in Isfahan to take the long journey to France, accompanied by his young friend Rica/5.
The Persian Letters, regarded as the novel that made Montesquieu famous, was published in two years before the young Louis XV came into power. It is an epistolatory novel: a collection of letters between different characters. In Montesquieu's era, and earlier, it was not unusual for people to publish collections of letters or sonnet cycles. Montesquieu died in Paris of a fever in In The Spirit of Laws was placed on the Vatican Index and likewise the Persian Letters in Christopher Betts was born in and is at present a lecturer in the School of French Studies at the University of Warwick. Persian Letters Character Analysis. Usbek. Usbek is the older and more experienced of the two Persian noblemen who travel through Turkey and Italy to settle in Paris. Although he claims his sole aim in leaving Persia is to gain more knowledge and learning, we understand that his life is in danger as his uncompromising honesty and dignity have.
Montesquieu's "Persian Letters" consist primarily of the collected correspondence of Usbek and Rica, two Persian travelers abroad in Europe in search of knowledge. For those familiar with Said's theories of Orientalism, this is an exemplary text to see how 18th century France thought of its Ottoman rivals, and how those views reflect the state of French society. About Montesquieu Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, better known as simply Montesquieu, was a French writer and philosopher who is most famous for his novel Persian Letters and his essay The Spirit of Laws, in which he developed a number of ideas that form the basis of our democracies even today. Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu) “Jokes in a serious work are acceptable on the condition that they hide a profound sense beneath a trivial form. It is in this way that Montesquieu, in his novel, Persian Letters, has written one of the most philosophical books of the eighteenth century.”. – Alexis de Tocqueville.
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