DE TOCQUEVILLE’S VOYAGE EN AMERIQUE

 

Edited with Introduction by: R. Clyde Ford

 

Copyright: 1909

 

Published By: D.C. Heath & Co., Publishers

 

This small antique Hard Cover book (161 pages) is in Very Good condition inside and out, especially for being 108 years old.  The cover has some fading and spine ends and corners are rubbed.  Interior pages age toned, and there are some margin notations in ink and a few ink underlinings. 

Please note, that only the Introduction and notes in the back of the book are in English; the remainder of the book is in French.

 

Extremely collectible in very good antique condition!

 

 

From Introduction:

 

Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de Tocqueville was born in Paris July 29, I 805. His father was a man of some importance under the Bourbons, for he served as prefect in various departments, and in I 827 was made a peer of France. His mother was a granddaughter of Malesherbes, the famous scholar, statesman, and academician, who defended Louis XVI before the Convention.

De Tocqueville's early boyhood was spent in the chateau of Verneuil near Mantes, where the genial Abbe Lesueur directed his education. Later, while his father was prefect of the department of the Moselle, he continued his studies in the college at Metz, where he made a poor record in Greek and Latin, but a brilliant one in French composition and rhetoric. After a law course of three years in Paris, he was admitted to the bar in I 826. The same year he set out for a visit to Italy and Sicily with his brother Edouard, but was recalled to France by royal order in 1827 and appointed assistant magistrate to the tribunal of Versailles.
It was while attached to this court that he met Gustave de Beaumont, who was henceforth to be his most intimate friend. The two young men had many tastes in common, and together they undertook those studies of new questions and movements in society which were destined to lead to important results in the lives of both. De Tocqueville was philosopher enough to perceive clearly the causes of weakness in the Bourbon power, and he realized that it was doomed.

 

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