Editing Montesquieu (section)

== List of principal works ==
* Memoirs and discourses at the Academy of Bordeaux (1718–1721): including discourses on echoes, on the renal glands, on weight of bodies, on transparency of bodies and on natural history, collected with introductions and critical apparatus in volumes 8 and 9 of ''Œuvres complètes'', Oxford and Naples, 2003–2006.
* ''Spicilège'' (''Gleanings'', 1715 onward)
* ''[[Persian Letters|Lettres persanes]]'' (''Persian Letters'', 1721)
* ''Le Temple de Gnide'' (''The Temple of Gnidos'', a prose poem; 1725)
* {{ill|Histoire véritable|fr|Histoire Véritable|ialic=yes}} (''True History'', an "Oriental" tale; c.&nbsp;1723–c.&nbsp;1738)
* ''[[Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline|Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence]]'' (''Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline'', 1734) at [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8613371v/f7.image.r=.langEN Gallica]
* ''Arsace et Isménie'' (''Arsace and Isménie'', a novel; 1742)
* ''De l'esprit des lois'' (''[[The Spirit of Law|(On) The Spirit of Law]]'', 1748) ([[:File:Montesquieu, De l'Esprit des loix (1st ed, 1748, vol 1).pdf|volume 1]] and [[:File:Montesquieu, De l'Esprit des loix (1st ed, 1748, vol 2).pdf|volume 2]] from [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ Gallica])
* ''Défense de "L'Esprit des lois"'' (''Defense of "The Spirit of Law"'', 1750)
* ''Essai sur le goût'' (''Essay on Taste'', published posthumously in 1757)
* ''Mes Pensées'' (''My Thoughts'', 1720–1755)

A critical edition of Montesquieu's works is being published by the Société Montesquieu. It is planned to total 22 volumes, of which (as of February 2022) all but five have appeared.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?rubrique5|website=Institut d'histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités|title=''Œuvres complètes''|access-date=28 February 2018|archive-date=7 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707080400/http://montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?rubrique5|url-status=live}}</ref>