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The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

English translation · Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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Alexis de Tocqueville set down these notes after his short-lived ministry fell, in the troubled years that followed the Revolution of February. They look back on his own part in trying to steer the Republic between Caesarism on one side and revolution on the other, and they were jotted on odds and ends of paper while he rested in Normandy and at Sorrento. He had entered political life in 1839, and he agreed only reluctantly, near the end of his life, to let them be published. This English version, by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, was the first translation; it was edited by the Comte de Tocqueville and issued in New York in 1896.

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was a French aristocrat and magistrate who spent nine months touring the United States with his friend Gustave de Beaumont, officially to report on its penitentiary system. He later sat in the Chamber of Deputies and served briefly as foreign minister of the Second Republic in 1849.

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