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Between France and America: The Life and Political Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville Thursday, December 4
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In 1831, the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville spent the better
part of a year touring the recently founded United States of America.
The result was his monumental La Démocratie en Amérique,
a work that quickly became a classic of American political and social
thought. Returning to France, de Tocqueville witnessed the revolutionary
upheavals of the July Monarchy, the revolution of 1848, and the
ascent of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte’s Second French Empire.
Near the end of his life, de Tocqueville turned his observations
of French revolutionary upheavals into a comparable account of the
development of modern France, L’Ancien Régime et la
Révolution Française, published in 1851. With an eye
toward the recent flare up of Franco-American tensions, this talk
will explore de Tocqueville’s navigation between the parallel
French and American traditions of democracy.|
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