Philip Stanhope de Chesterfield

Philip Dormer Stanhope (September 22nd 1694 - March 24th 1773), 4th Count de Chesterfield, was a British statesman. He was initially member of the House of Commons, entered that of the Lords to died of his father (1726), and pointed out himself in both by his eloquence. He successfully fulfills the functions of ambassador in Holland (1728), of viceroy in Ireland, and of Secretary of State (1748). He was dependant with the men most distinguished from the England and the France, particularly with Voltaire and Montesquieu.

There are of him speeches, pieces detached and Lettres with his son (natural child, born from a Frenchwoman, died in 1768, at 36 years), where it gives him councils on his control in the world, and on its studies during a voyage whom it made on the continent. They were translated into French, with some suppressions, Amsterdam, 1777, and Paris, 1842 (by Amédée Renee, 2 volumes in-12). The various Œuvres of Chesterfield were published in London, 1774, 4 vol. in-4, and 1853, 5 volumes in-8.

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