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France, It's to Explain French Decline
If you were born at montesquieu's time, politics is perplexing. In many respects it doesn't make sense. Louis the fourteenth undertakes a series of expensive wars. He seeks to reunite christendom. So this aggressive, militant catholicism, persecuting the huguenots, et cetera. And france declines. The additional problem is the rise of what was really considered the puny state of england, ofisy united with scotland concernbot france. It's to explain french decline. And it's to work out why large, powerful states should be dominant, culturally, sophisticated, etcetera. But they're