Alexis de Tocqueville
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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, was a French diplomat, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution
Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville by Théodore Chassériau, 1850
The Fabert School in Metz, where Tocqueville was a student between 1817 and 1823
Tocqueville at the 1851 "Commission de la révision de la Constitution à l'Assemblée nationale"
A page from original working manuscript of Democracy in America, c. 1840
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman and minister in the Ancien Régime, and later counsel for the defense o
Alexis de Tocqueville
…interpreted his work as supporting their own positions. Tocqueville came from an old aristocratic Norman family, the great-grandson of the statesman Malesherbes, who was guillotined in 1793. He was the third son of Hervé Louis François Jean Bonaventure Clérel, Count of Tocqueville, an officer of the Constitutional…
(Musée de la Révolution française)
Château of Malesherbes
Anne-Marie, Countess of Sénozan