Ancien Regime and the French Revolution (Penguin Classics)

Ancien Regime and the French Revolution (Penguin Classics)
Alexis De Tocqueville (Author), Gerald Bevan (Translator)
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The Ancien Ri?{1/2}gime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805i?{1/2}59) is an objective observer of both periods i?{1/2} providing a merciless critique of the ancien ri?{1/2}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. 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.

• Rank: #11814 in eBooks
• Published on: 2008-05-29
• Released on: 2008-05-29
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Description #1 by Aquinas Catholic:

About this book - A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville's influential look at the origins of modern France In this penetrating study, Alexis de Tocqueville considers the French Revolution in the context of France's history. de Tocqueville worried that although the revolutionary spirit was still alive and well, liberty was no longer its primary objective. Just as the first Republic had fallen to Napoleon and the second had succumbed to his nephew Napoleon III, he feared that all future revolutions might experience the same fate, forever imperiling the development of democracy in France. About the Author - Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) was a historian, social critic, and politician whose study of the early American republic, Democracy in America, is a political text of enduring significance. Gerald Bevan is the translator of the Penguin Classics edition of de

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author alexis de tocqueville format paperback language english publication year 29 05 2008 subject history military subject 2 regional history title the ancien regime and the french revolution author tocqueville alexis de bevan gerald translator brogan hugh introduction by publisher penguin classics publication date jul 29 2008 pages 307 binding paperback dimensions 5 00 wx 7 75 hx 1 00 d isbn 014144164 x subject history europe france description compares pre revolutionary and post revolutiona

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