Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Liberal Member of Parliament for the Manche department in 1840, Foreign Minister in 1849, exiled after the Prince-President Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's coup d'état, Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 in Paris.
His two major works are "Democracy in America" (1835) and "The Old Regime and the Revolution" (1850). Son of the aristocracy, Tocqueville sharply analysed the 1789 Revolution and drew the democratic lessons from it with a skill that was continually ahead of its time.
The Alexis de Tocqueville Prize, created in 1979, is awarded every two years to a major work in the field of political science.
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