(3-CD box set) This is one of the major works of French literature. "Les Letters Persanes" was written in 1721 in an exchange of mail between Usbek and Rica, two supposed "Persans" traveling in Europe. The artifact of correspondence allows the author - famed writer and philosopher Montesquieu - to depict a French and European pre-revolutionary society with subtelty and irony. A monument of 18th Century's literature. In French.