Life
1805-1859; member of Chamber of Deputies, 1839-48; Constituent and legislative
Assemblies of Second Republic; member of Conseil Général
of the Departement de La Manche, 1842; judiciary and politician to 1851;
visited USA in 1851, and wrote La Démocratie en Amérique
(1835, 1840); also unfinished masterpiece, L’Ancien Régime
(1856), treating that era as source of principals that grew to overthrow
it, and characterising the French Revolution as the greatest property
transaction in history; corresponded with John Stuart Mill. OCEL OCAL
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Works
Correspondance et Écrits locaux, ed., Lise Queffelec Tome
10 of Oeuvres Complètes [18 vols.] (Paris: Gallimard [q.d.]); Emmet Larkin, trans. and intro., Alexis de Tocqueville’s Journey in Ireland, July-August 1835 (Washington: CUA Press 1990), xvi, 157pp.
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Emmet Larkin, trans. and intro., Alexis de Tocqueville’s Journey in Ireland, July-August 1835 (Washington: CUA Press 1990), xvi, 157pp.
André Jardin, Alexis de Tocqueville 1805-1859 (Paris 1984);
G. W. Pierosn, Tocqueville and Beaumont in america (1938); Larry Siedentop, Tocqueville (OUP 1994), 153pp.
James Kelly, review of Emmet Larkin, trans. & ed., Journey in Ireland, July-August 1835 (1990), with Gustave de Beaumont, L’Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse [1839] (Univ. Charles de Gaulle 1990), in Linen Hall Review (James Kelly, Sept. 1991).
Review of Emmet Larkin, trans. and ed., Alexis de Tocqueville’s Journey in Ireland, July-August, 1835 (Wolfhound, 1990), in Books Ireland, Summer 1991].
Hugh Brogan, review of Larry Siedentop, Tocqueville (OUP 1994), in Times Literary Supplement (13 May [q.d.]).
Oliver MacDonagh, States of Mind, London: Allen & Unwin 1983, p.91.
James Fairhall, James Joyce and the Question of History, Cambridge UP 1993, p.131.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)