Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
	1850 portrait by Théodore Chassériau
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 2 June 1849 – 30 October 1849
Prime Minister	Odilon Barrot
Preceded by	Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys
Succeeded by	Alphonse de Rayneval
Member of the National Assembly; for Manche
	In office; 25 April 1848 – 3 December 1851
Preceded by	Léonor-Joseph Havin
Succeeded by	Hervé de Kergorlay
Constituency	Sainte-Mère-Église
Member of the Chamber of Deputies; for Manche
	In office; 7 March 1839 – 23 April 1848
Preceded by	Jules Polydore Le Marois
Succeeded by	Gabriel-Joseph Laumondais
Constituency	Valognes
Personal details
Born	Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville; 29 July 1805; Paris, French Empire
Died	16 April 1859 (aged 53); Cannes, French Empire
Cause of death	Tuberculosis
Political party	Movement Party; (1839–1848); Party of Order; (1848–1851)
Spouse(s)	Mary Mottley; (m. 1835; died 1859)
Alma mater	University of Paris
Profession	Historian, magistrate, jurist
	Philosophy career
Notable work	Democracy in America (1835); The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Liberal conservatism
Main interests	History, political philosophy, sociology
Notable ideas	Voluntary association, mutual liberty, soft despotism
	Influences
	Influenced

Alexis Charles-Henri-Maurice Clérel, Viscount de Tocqueville (/ˈtoʊkvɪl, ˈtɒk-/;^[4] French: [alɛgzi də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859) was a French diplomat, political scientist and historian. He was best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).

Alexis De Tocqueville Media

The Fabert School in Metz, where Tocqueville was a student between 1817 and 1823
Tocqueville at the 1851 "Commission de la révision de la Constitution à l'Assemblée nationale"
A page from original working manuscript of Democracy in America, c. 1840
1849 caricature by Honoré Daumier

↑ Boucaud-Victoire, Kévin (2017). La guerre des gauches. Editions du Cerf.
↑ Véricour, Louis Raymond (1848). Modern French Literature. Gould, Kendall and Lincoln. p. 104.
↑ Lakoff, Sandoff (1998). "Tocqueville, Burke, and the Origins of Liberal Conservatism". The Review of Politics. 60(3): 435–464. doi:10.1017/S003467050002742X
↑ "Tocqueville". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

Alexis de Tocqueville
1850 portrait by Théodore Chassériau

Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 2 June 1849 – 30 October 1849
Prime Minister	Odilon Barrot
Preceded by	Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys
Succeeded by	Alphonse de Rayneval
Member of the National Assembly for Manche
In office 25 April 1848 – 3 December 1851
Preceded by	Léonor-Joseph Havin
Succeeded by	Hervé de Kergorlay
Constituency	Sainte-Mère-Église
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Manche
In office 7 March 1839 – 23 April 1848
Preceded by	Jules Polydore Le Marois
Succeeded by	Gabriel-Joseph Laumondais
Constituency	Valognes

Personal details
Born	Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805-07-29)29 July 1805 Paris, French Empire
Died	16 April 1859(1859-04-16) (aged 53) Cannes, French Empire
Cause of death	Tuberculosis
Political party	Movement Party^[1]^[2] (1839–1848) Party of Order (1848–1851)
Spouse(s)	Mary Mottley (m. 1835; died 1859)
Alma mater	University of Paris
Profession	Historian, magistrate, jurist
Philosophy career
Notable work	Democracy in America (1835) The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)

Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Liberal conservatism^[3]
Main interests	History, political philosophy, sociology
Notable ideas	Voluntary association, mutual liberty, soft despotism
Influences Montesquieu Voltaire Rousseau Malesherbes Pascal
Influenced Max Weber John Stuart Mill Friedrich Hayek Camillo Benso of Cavour Emmanuel Todd Raymond Aron Pierre Manent Harvey Mansfield Claude Lefort