Alexis de Tocqueville
historical figure · 3 works · 10 mentions · 17 anchored passages · author page · cited 7 times in 3 works
Tocqueville · De Tocqueville · M. de Tocqueville
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
French writer identified as one of three modern writers who foresaw the course of contemporary history, notably predicting the 1848 Revolution and the future rise of socialism.
Tocqueville uttered in January 1848 words which are strictly prophetic of the Revolution of February 1848.
Englishmen will readily acknowledge that there are many cases in which the interference of the State really increases the personal liberty of a citizen, but, to any one brought up under the influence of John Mill and Tocqueville, it will be very difficult to believe that it is possible to deny that there may be, and in a socialistic state always will be, a conflict between the freedom necessary fo …
A prudent man will in these circumstances do well to adopt as his conclusion the words of Alexis de Tocqueville:
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
French historian cited for his account of the French nobility's caste-like alienation from the peasantry.
De Tocqueville has strongly suggested, and others after him will probably demonstrate, that the enormous social prestige of the French Court and its constant indulgence of its military tastes had at length turned the French territorial nobility into a caste as distinct from the cultivating peasantry as is the Rajput from the Sudra, as distinct as was the white planter of the Southern States from t …
De Tocqueville, who first dug deep into the cahiers, and showed what great results might be obtained by thoroughly exploring that mine, has left the striking remark that no foreigner can properly appreciate the state of sentiment in one section of French society, where there is scarcely a single family in which the guillotining of a parent or a near relative is not a recollection or a fresh tradition;
as Tocqueville has pointed out, the agents of the centralised royal authority had usurped all serious administrative functions;
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
French historian whose 'Ancien Régime' is cited on the French nobility's reliance on feudal dues.
de Tocqueville has explained, in his ‘Ancien Régime’ (i.