The Ancien R Tocqueville Alexis dePaperback
The Ancien R Tocqueville Alexis dePaperback A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville's influential look at the origins of modern FranceThe Ancien R gime and the Revolution is a comparison of…
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The Ancien R Tocqueville Alexis dePaperback
A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville's influential look at the origins of modern FranceThe Ancien R gime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective observer of both periods - providing a merciless critique of the ancien r gime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten.
His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about