The Spirit of Law

The Spirit of the Laws - 1748 treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu. This book is the 927^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Spirit of Law” in English Wikipedia has 24.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.75 points.

This article has the best quality in Dutch Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “The Spirit of Law”, its content was written by 139 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 702 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Spirit of the Laws is on the 927^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 715 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1892 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #35429 in April 2014
• Global: #15876 in April 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #73889 in November 2014
• Global: #44166 in May 2015

There are 30 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Dutch (nl) Over de geest van de wetten		35.7452
2	Ukrainian (uk) Про дух законів		29.3329
3	Latin (la) De l'esprit des lois		28.9257
4	Esperanto (eo) De l'esprit des lois		26.2025
5	Norwegian (no) Lovenes ånd		25.732
6	French (fr) De l'esprit des lois		25.6155
7	Swedish (sv) De l'esprit des lois		25.3473
8	Chinese (zh) 論法的精神		25.1806
9	English (en) The Spirit of Law		24.7727
10	Hebrew (he) רוח החוקים		21.7813

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Spirit of Law" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Spirit of Law		1 596 688
2	French (fr) De l'esprit des lois		1 420 978
3	Spanish (es) El espíritu de las leyes		1 112 773
4	Japanese (ja) 法の精神		339 659
5	German (de) Vom Geist der Gesetze		219 532
6	Italian (it) Lo spirito delle leggi		206 422
7	Chinese (zh) 論法的精神		137 698
8	Dutch (nl) Over de geest van de wetten		78 216
9	Persian (fa) روح‌القوانین		73 092
10	Arabic (ar) روح القوانين		70 384

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Spirit of Law" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Spirit of Law		4 420
2	French (fr) De l'esprit des lois		2 778
3	Spanish (es) El espíritu de las leyes		1 479
4	Japanese (ja) 法の精神		938
5	Russian (ru) О духе законов		670
6	Chinese (zh) 論法的精神		621
7	Italian (it) Lo spirito delle leggi		593
8	German (de) Vom Geist der Gesetze		433
9	Persian (fa) روح‌القوانین		301
10	Korean (ko) 법의 정신		225

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "The Spirit of Law" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Spirit of Law		139
2	French (fr) De l'esprit des lois		127
3	Spanish (es) El espíritu de las leyes		60
4	German (de) Vom Geist der Gesetze		54
5	Dutch (nl) Over de geest van de wetten		42
6	Chinese (zh) 論法的精神		26
7	Italian (it) Lo spirito delle leggi		24
8	Japanese (ja) 法の精神		24
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tinh thần pháp luật		21
10	Swedish (sv) De l'esprit des lois		19

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "The Spirit of Law" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Qanunların ruhu haqqında		2
2	French (fr) De l'esprit des lois		2
3	Arabic (ar) روح القوانين		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) За духа на законите		0
5	Catalan (ca) L'esperit de les lleis		0
6	Czech (cs) O duchu zákonů		0
7	Danish (da) De l'esprit des lois		0
8	German (de) Vom Geist der Gesetze		0
9	Greek (el) Το πνεύμα των νόμων		0
10	English (en) The Spirit of Law		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The Spirit of Law" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Spirit of Law		715
2	Swedish (sv) De l'esprit des lois		342
3	French (fr) De l'esprit des lois		210
4	Italian (it) Lo spirito delle leggi		145
5	German (de) Vom Geist der Gesetze		75
6	Spanish (es) El espíritu de las leyes		66
7	Japanese (ja) 法の精神		50
8	Chinese (zh) 論法的精神		34
9	Dutch (nl) Over de geest van de wetten		32
10	Russian (ru) О духе законов		32

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic روح القوانين
az	Azerbaijani Qanunların ruhu haqqında
bg	Bulgarian За духа на законите
ca	Catalan L'esperit de les lleis
cs	Czech O duchu zákonů
da	Danish De l'esprit des lois
de	German Vom Geist der Gesetze
el	Greek Το πνεύμα των νόμων
en	English The Spirit of Law
eo	Esperanto De l'esprit des lois
es	Spanish El espíritu de las leyes
fa	Persian روح‌القوانین
fi	Finnish De l’esprit des lois
fr	French De l'esprit des lois
he	Hebrew רוח החוקים
id	Indonesian De l'esprit des lois
it	Italian Lo spirito delle leggi
ja	Japanese 法の精神
ko	Korean 법의 정신
la	Latin De l'esprit des lois
nl	Dutch Over de geest van de wetten
no	Norwegian Lovenes ånd
pl	Polish O duchu praw
ru	Russian О духе законов
simple	Simple English The Spirit of the Laws
sv	Swedish De l'esprit des lois
th	Thai เดอแล็สพรีเดลัว
uk	Ukrainian Про дух законів
vi	Vietnamese Tinh thần pháp luật
zh	Chinese 論法的精神

Best Rank

English: #73889 11.2014

Global: #44166 05.2015

Best Rank

English: #35429 04.2014

Global: #15876 04.2012

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