Alexis de Tocqueville

Over the course of nine months in 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker, and accompanied by Gustave de Beaumont, travelled the United States under the pretext of studying the American prison system. Over the course of his travels, Tocqueville also studied American society, religion, politics, and economics, undertaking what would become one of the most comprehensive studies to that time of the practice of democracy in the United States. Democracy...

Il n’y a rien de plus propre à rappeler les philosophes et les hommes d’État à la modestie que l’histoire de notre Révolution ; car il n’y eut jamais d’événements plus grands, conduits de plus loin, mieux préparés et moins prévus. Le grand Frédéric lui-même, malgré son génie, ne la pressent pas. Il la touche sans la voir. Bien plus, il agit par avance suivant son esprit ; il est son précurseur et déjà, pour ainsi dire, son...

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