Tocqueville

American  

[tohk-vil, tok-, tawk-veel] / ˈtoʊk vɪl, ˈtɒk-, tɔkˈvil /

noun

1. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de 1805–59, French statesman and author.

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Tocqueville British  

/ tɔkvil, ˈtɒk-, ˈtəʊkvɪl /

noun

1. Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de (alɛksi ʃarl ɑ̃ri mɔris klerɛl də). 1805–59, French politician and political writer. His chief works are De la Démocratie en Amérique (1835–40) and L'Ancien régime et la révolution (1856)

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Example Sentences

Alexis de Tocqueville compared the recovery of the ancien régime’s laws and methods to rivers that, having gone underground, re-emerge “at another point in new surroundings.”

From The Wall Street Journal

As the French traveler Alexis de Tocqueville wrote nearly 200 years ago, America’s leading minds weren’t drawn to poetry, music or the arts.

From The Wall Street Journal

The French political thinker Tocqueville visited the U.S. in 1831 and published, in two volumes, his observations about how democracy was shaping institutions and daily life.

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Alexis de Tocqueville observed that democracies die when people become isolated, and that Americans overcome this danger by coming together.

From The Wall Street Journal

A closing chapter in Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” is titled “What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear.”

From Salon