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  Ancien Regime and the French Revolution (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Alexis de Tocqueville, Translated by Gerald Bevan

  

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  Short Description for Ancien Regime and the French RevolutionPresents a critique of the ancien regime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledges the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King. This book raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 01 August 2008
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages
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  • Categories: Revolutionary Groups & Movements | European History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions
  • ISBN 13: 9780141441641 ISBN 10: 014144164X
  • Sales rank: 102,884

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• The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective observer of both periods - providing a merciless critique of the ancien regime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.