A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville's influential look at the origins of modern France The Ancien R gime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective observer of both periods - providing a merciless critique of the ancien r gime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state wa.
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