£43.00
Description
| Issued by | Banque de France |
| Issue | 1968-1997 Issue |
| Demonetized | 31.03.1998 |
| Size | 1972 x 92 mm |
| Printer | Banque de France (France) – BF |
| Watermark | Portrait of Charles Baron de Montesquieu |
| Signatures | Bernard Dentaud (Chief Cashier) = Denis Ferman (Comptroller General) = Pierre Strohl (General Secretary) |
| Obverse | Effigy of French writer, Charles Louis de Secondat (Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu) (1689-1755); Female allegory symbolizing the Law and a badge symbolizing his masterwork “L’Esprit des Lois” (The Spirit of Laws) in 1748 |
| Reverse | Portrait of Charles de Secondat (Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu) in a Persian style background; An evocation of the “Lettres Persanes” (Persian Letters) (1721); “Dialogue de Sylla et d’Eucrate” (A Dialogue between Sylla and Eucrates) (1724); The Château de la Brède castle (Gironde) where he was born |
