Alexis de Docqueville
Date Submitted: 01/12/2004 10:29:24
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (312 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (312 words)
Alexis de Tocqueville was born on July 29, 1805, in Paris. His father was a
government official in various parts of France. His great-grandfather was a liberal
aristocrat who was killed in the French Revolution. And his mother was a devoted
Roman Catholic. Abbe Lesueur was Tocqueville's tutor, when his father passed away.
Tocquevile went to the College Royal in Metz to study philosophy at the age of
six-teen. During this time Tocqueville started to have fears …
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…Mary Motley, an Englishwoman. The marriage was a disgrace to Tocqueville's
family because they though of Mary Motley to be of lesser birth. Tocqueville's
mother died in 1836. After his mother died, Tocqueville went back to politics. He ran
for the Chamber of Deputies in 1837, but lost. He lost because of his noble
background. In 1838, he was named to the Legion of Honor for Democracy in
America. In the year 1839 he was elected to the Chamber.
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