He grew up in La Brede, with a noble and prosperous family. His father was Jacques de Secondat, who was a soldier with a long noble ancestry. His mother, Marie Francoise de Pesnel, who died when Baron was seven, she was a female inheritor of a large monetary inheritance who brought the title of barony of La Brede to the Secondat family. Montesquieu was educated at the Oratorian College de Juilly for the law field and physics of government. He then received a law degree from the University of Bordeaux in 1708, then left for Paris to continue his
studies in government. On his father's death in 1713, he returned back to La Brede to manage the estates he inherited. In 1715 he married Jeanne de Lartique who was a Protestant. The year after his marriage his uncle died leaving him with a fortune, Baron de Montesquieu and that's how he got that name (from his unlce), and Baron is awarded the president of Mortier.