by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu · Gallimard Editions · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070320431
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«Lettres persanes» is the epistolary novel by Montesquieu, published by Gallimard Editions in paperback (438 pages, in French).
The work is presented as an exchange of letters between Usbek and Rica, two Persian nobles travelling through Europe, and their correspondents in Persia. Their status as foreigners allows them to observe with distance and wonder the customs, power and contradictions of French society of their time, in a satirical portrait combining irony and reflection.
Originally published in 1721, it is part of the Folioplus Classiques collection; the edition adds a dossier by Alain Sandrier and a reading of images by Valérie Lagier.
Edition with didactic material, intended for students of French and for those approaching the classics of French literature.
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher.
