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The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789, and the Causes Which Led to That Event

The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789, and the Causes Which Led to That Event( )
Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
ISBN:978-1-177-79533-3
Publication Date:Aug 2010
Publisher:Creative Media Partners, LLC
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $30.75
Book Details
Pages:326
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.44 x 9.69 x 0.68 Inches
Book Weight:1.29 Pounds
Author Biography
de Tocqueville, Alexis (Author)
French writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Verneuil to an aristocratic Norman family. He entered the bar in 1825 and became an assistant magistrate at Versailles. In 1831, he was sent to the United States to report on the prison system. This journey produced a book called On the Penitentiary System in the United States (1833), as well as a much more significant work called Democracy in America (1835--40), a treatise on American society and its political system. Active in French politics, Tocqueville also wrote Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), in which he argued that the Revolution of 1848 did not constitute a break with the past but merely accelerated a trend toward greater centralization of government. Tocqueville was an observant Catholic, and this has been cited as a reason why many of his insights, rather than being confined to a particular time and place, reach beyond to see a universality in all people everywhere.

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