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Publication
Anchor (1983), Paperback, 300 pages
Description
The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville.
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LibraryThing member SusannainSC
I read this excellent first volume of de Tocqueville's planned history of the French Revolution (he didn't live to complete it, alas) in my senior year in college, in a senior seminar on the Russian Revolution. A thorough exegesis of why the French ancien regime was ripe for downfall in 1789.
Awards
French-American Foundation Translation Prize (Winner — 2011)
Original publication date
1856
Physical description
300 p.; 7.9 inches
ISBN
0385092601 / 9780385092609