The Old Regime and the French Revolution: Original Edition - Softcover

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 179814056X ISBN 13: 9781798140567

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

This is the first part of a planned history of the French Revolution. Tocqueville did not live to complete the work. Part one deals with the origins of the Revolution and the centralization of the French bureaucracy. The original title 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 179814056X
• ISBN 13: 9781798140567
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176