Ancien Régime and the French Revolution

Book • 1856

Alexis de Tocqueville

This book examines the social structure of France before the French Revolution, focusing on the Ancien Régime.

It explores the causes of the Revolution and discusses how, despite the Revolution's ideals, France eventually returned to a centralized government.

Tocqueville intended this as the first part of a trilogy on the Revolution but did not complete the subsequent volumes.

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