Old Regime and the French Revolution
by Alexis de Tocqueville
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Brilliantly and searchingly examines the nature of French society in the years before the Revolution. Why did the Revolution break out? Was it inevitable, and if so, why? How was France really changed by the Revolution? Why did the intellectuals become enemies of the old French state and society? Why was the French nobility so estranged from the French people? Why, in short, were Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette doomed to the guillotines of the Revolution? In this book, Tocqueville examined these and many other questions, and in large measure definitively answered them.
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History, Causes, War, Political Systems, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, causes, Causes and character, Histoire, France, Ancien Régime, Causes et caractères, Franse Revolutie, Influence, Französische Revolution, French Revolution, Nonfiction, Revolution (France : 1789-1799) fast (OCoLC)fst01354514, Politics and government, Social conditions, Democracy, France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes., Revolution (France : 1789-1799) cct, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, Conditions sociales, Politique et gouvernement, 18e s., France, history, bourbons, 1589-1789, Revolutions, Political science, POLITICAL SCIENCE / GeneralPlaces
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L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the Revolution or The Old Regime and the French Revolution.
The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution, the so-called "Ancien Régime", and investigates the forces that caused the Revolution. It is one of the major early historical works on the French Revolution. In this book, de Tocqueville develops his main theory about the French revolution, the theory of continuity, in which he states that even though the French tried to dissociate themselves from the past and from the autocratic old regime, they eventually reverted to a powerful central government.
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