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An 11 page paper exploring the writings of father and son Alexis de Tocqueville and Herve de Tocqueville regarding the French Revolution. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Normandy in 1805 (Tocqueville interleaf). He was to become known
as a French historian and a philosopher. He would be appointed as an assistant to the French magistrate early in his career and consequently be allowed to travel to
America for observations on their penal system (Tocqueville interleaf). His published works would include Democracy in America published in 1835 based partially on his observations on his nine-month 1931
trip to America (Tocqueville interleaf). Democracy in America would be immediately recognized as a masterpiece and Alexis Tocqueville would become renown for his political perspectives at the age of
26 (Tocqueville interleaf). Alexis Tocqueville would continue to be active in French politics, serving a brief stint as the Minister of
Foreign Affairs after the revolution of 1848 (Tocqueville interleaf). He retired from French government after the ousting of Louis Napoleon and spent the last years of his life diligently
studying the French Revolution and its consequences (Tocqueville interleaf). He was able to complete one volume of his observations regarding the French Revolution and publish it as LAncien regime
et la revolution (The Old Regime and the French Revolution) in 1856 (Tocqueville interleaf). Alexis Tocqueville died in 1859, without ever completing the second volume of his work, less
than three years after the publication of this tremendously important work examining the various factors which interwove among themselves and resulted in the French Revolution (Tocqueville interleaf).
Much of Tocquevilles work and ideologies were influenced by his father, Count Herve de Tocqueville, to whom he was greatly attached.
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