Alexis de Tocqueville

Standard Name: Tocqueville, Alexis de

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Education Frances E. W. Harper
Her education continued throughout her life. Her first employer owned a bookstore and maintained a private library in which he permitted her to read. She indulged herself in the works of John Ruskin , John Stuart Mill
Friends, Associates Sarah Austin
Leading intellectuals and artists who visited SA 's salon included historian Auguste Mignet , philosopher and politician Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire , political writer Alexis de Tocqueville , historian Augustin Thierry , economists Léon Faucher , Frédéric Bastiat
Friends, Associates Charlotte Dempster
CD also associated with various men of letters during her time in Paris, including Gustave de Beaumont , who at that time was editing the letters of Alexis de Tocqueville .
Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920.
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Her circle...
Textual Features Harriet Martineau
When Henry Milman begged HM (who was about to publish on the topic of America) not to attack his friend Frances Trollope , she replied: you don't suppose I am going to occupy any...

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1805: Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and...

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1805

Alexis de Tocqueville , French historian and sociologist, was born.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1835: Alexis de Tocqueville published the first...

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1835

Alexis de Tocqueville published the first part of La démocratie en Amérique.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1856: Alexis de Tocqueville published L'Ancien...

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1856

Alexis de Tocqueville published L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution, a study of pre-evolutionary France.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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16 April 1859: French historian and sociologist Alexis de...

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16 April 1859

French historian and sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville died of tuberculosis.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

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