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    The Old Regime and the French Revolution

    By Alexis de Tocqueville

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    The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateDec 22, 2010
    ISBN9780307773654
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    Alexis de Tocqueville

    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was born in Verneuil, France. A historian and political scientist, he came to the United States in 1831 to report on the prison system. His experiences would later become the basis for his classic study Democracy in America.

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      I read this excellent first volume of de Tocqueville's planned history of the French Revolution (he didn't live to complete it, alas) in my senior year in college, in a senior seminar on the Russian Revolution. A thorough exegesis of why the French ancien regime was ripe for downfall in 1789.