Tocqueville: 2 books
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2014
EXTRAIT:
INTRODUCTION
Matériaux pour une histoire
de l'influence de l'ancien régime
Le 26 décembre 1851, Tocqueville écrivait à son ami Gustave de Beaumont, de Sorrente : « Il y a longtemps, comme vous savez, que je suis préoccupé de l'idée d'entreprendre un nouveau livre....
by Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
The book I now publish is not a history of the French Revolution; that history has been written with too much success for me to attempt to write it again. This volume is a study on the Revolution.
The French people made, in 1789, the greatest effort which was ever attempted by any nation to cut, so...