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The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
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"I have more experience than you of the ways of the populace; take my word, get back to your horse at once, for if you stay here, you will be killed or taken prisoner before five minutes are over."
He took my word for it, and it was well he did. A few moments later, these same men whom he had undertaken to convert murdered the occupants of the guard-house in the Rue des Champs-Elysées; I myself had some difficulty in forcing my way through them. One of them, a short, thick-set man, who seemed to belong to the lower class of workmen, asked me where I was going.
I replied, "To the Chamber," adding, to show that I was a member of the Opposition, "Reform for ever! You know the Guizot Ministry has been dismissed?"
"Yes, sir, I know," replied the man, jeeringly, and pointing to the Tuileries, ". . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Si revisas las historias de la revolución del 48 en Francia, en lo que están de acuerdo de Marx a Tocqueville, es que tuvo más un aire de farsa que un aire de rebelión.
Hay muchos detalles que encuentras con Tocqueville que con Marx se pierden, por ejemplo Tocqueville trabajó para Luis Napoleon y tuv
Uno de los mejores libros sobre política que he leído nunca. Es una crónica, unas memorias, no un libro de Historia, pero la inteligencia y lo agudo de sus observaciones nos ayuda a entender el presente. Hay personajes y actitudes en este libro que, aún refiriéndose a personas en 1.848 en Francia, s
I read this book some decades ago, probably in the 1990s. It is one of Tocqueville's splendid works. In this case, he was both a participant in and a historian of the political actions he describes.
Se fosse possível daria 6 estrelas a esse livro. Seguramente uma das melhores obras de análise política de todos os tempos. Só isso.
Publicada postumamente, é um misto de análise e impressões pessoas sobre os acontecimentos na França de 1848 e anos seguintes. Traz muitas das anotações que ele foi f
The revolutions/uprisings of 1848 is a subject I've been meaning to get to for over a decade, but there always seem to be a couple of book and subjects ahead of it on my reading list. As it happens I listen to Mike Duncan's podcast Revolutions (which I highly recommend) and he is presently going thr
De Tocqueville is famous, at least in the United States, for his work Democracy in America. But he also wrote about his home county, and France was a pretty crazy place through the nineteenth century. He was of the nobility, but (partially due to his time in the U.S.) was more attuned to the flaws a
Much more personal and even caustic than Tocqueville's more detached works like Democracy in America; so the Frenchman's extraordinary perception shines through in unexpected ways.
Tocqueville was a member of Parliament at the time of the 1848 revolution in France, which took down Louis Philippe's monarchy and replaced him for a Republic; he was part of the committee that drafted the Republican constitution and then was Minister of Foreign Affairs for a brief time the next yea