Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 to 1859) was a French aristocrat, political philosopher and historian. Born in Paris into a Norman family that had suffered grievously during the Terror, he trained in law and in 1831 sailed to the United States with his friend Gustave de Beaumont, officially to study the American prison system. The two volumes of Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840, examined the conditions, dangers and promise of modern democratic society, including the soft despotism of majority opinion. He sat in the Chamber of Deputies under the July Monarchy and in the assemblies of the Second Republic, and was briefly Foreign Minister in 1849. His The Old Regime and the Revolution argued that the French Revolution extended the centralizing tendencies of the monarchy. He died of tuberculosis at Cannes in 1859.
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Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 and died in 1859.
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He trained in law and in 1827 was appointed an unpaid magistrate at Versailles.
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He served in the Chamber of Deputies under the July Monarchy
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Alexis de Tocqueville was a French philosopher of the Modern era.
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Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 in Paris
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Alexis de Tocqueville was a French aristocrat, political philosopher, and historian.
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His writings remain a central reference for liberal political theory and the comparative study of democracy.
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His writings remain a central reference for liberal political theory and the comparative study of democracy.
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His writings remain a central reference for liberal political theory and the comparative study of democracy.
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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805-16 April 1859)
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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805-16 April 1859)
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