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Ancien Regime and the Revolution

Gerald Bevan, Alexis De Tocqueville

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Publication date : 2008-05-29

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The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) is an objective observer of both periods – providing a merciless critique of the ancien régime, 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. 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. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.

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Author

Gerald Bevan , Alexis de Tocqueville

Imprint

Penguin

Collection

n.c

Publication date

2008-05-29

Pages

336 pages

Print ISBN

9780141441641

Language

English

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9780141919737

Price

£2.99

Copy count 33

Print count 33

File size 440 Ko

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Gerald Bevan

Alexis de Tocqueville

The nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) was a historian, social critic, and politician. He is best-known for his keen his insights in Democracy in America, but he made important observations about the French Revolution as well.

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