The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

PREFACE

"C'est tousiours plaisir de veoir les choses escriptes par ceulx qui ont essayé comme il les faut conduire." MONTAIGNE.

Alexis de Tocqueville made his entrance in political life in 1839.[1] At the outbreak of the Revolution of February he was in the prime of his age and in the maturity of his talent. He threw himself into the struggle, resolving to devot...