The Château de la Brède: the place of Montesquieu’s birth, to which he continued to return, staying true to his roots and to himself. An estate that he steadily expanded and carefully tended, parklands that he landscaped, a room where he would sometimes receive visitors and a library that he filled with books, from where he could look out over his beloved lands. In the chateau and its estate, both handed down to his descendants and now listed as a French historical monument, the spirit of Montesquieu and the memory of eight hundred years of history live on.