Alexis de Tocqueville
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- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Historians, Democracy
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, French History
Article abstract: A political and social analyst, Tocqueville was the earliest, the greatest, and surely the most percipient observer of the initial growth and increasing persuasiveness of democracy in all areas of American culture.
Early Life
Alexis-Henri-Charles-Maurice Clérel, Comte de Tocqueville, was born in the Paris suburb of Verneuil on July 29, 1805, a few years after his aristocratic parents had been released from their imprisonment by revolutionary forces for their close relations with the collapsed monarchy of Louis XVI and for their...
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