L'ancien régime et la révolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
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"L'ancien régime et la révolution" by Alexis de Tocqueville is an essay published in 1856. Writing decades after the French Revolution, Tocqueville investigates its origins and challenges conventional understanding. He argues the Revolution was not a sudden break but the culmination of centuries-long processes, particularly state centralization. Examining why France—the most politically advanced nation—experienced such upheaval, he reveals paradoxes: the Revolution both destroyed and continued the old regime's institutions, and progress itself
accelerated the collapse of feudal society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 |
|---|---|
| Title | L'ancien régime et la révolution |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Regime_and_the_Revolution |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Ancien_R%C3%A9gime_et_la_R%C3%A9volution |
| Credits |
Produced by Clarity, Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 59.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco |
| Subject | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 54339 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-54339-0 |
| Release Date | Mar 10, 2017 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1161 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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