Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

Political philsopher, politician, historian, parliament member in the July Monarchy and the 1848 revolution

famous trip to America in 1831 in order to observe the American prison system

Books:

  • Democracy in America (1835, HTML, Text-v1, Text-v2)
  • American Institutions and Their Influence (1851, Text)
  • The Ancien Régime and the Revolution (1856, unfinished history)
  • Letters on American Slavery (1860, multiple formats)
  • The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789, and the Causes Which Led to That Event (3rd ed. 1888, PDF)
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