Tocqueville

[tohk-vil, tok-, tawk-veel]

noun

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

Tocqueville

/ 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)

Example Sentences

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.

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

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Speakers summoned the grand ideas of figures like the Pope, Homer, Dostoyevsky, Leo Strauss, Tocqueville and Gramsci.

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As Alexis de Tocqueville observed 175 years ago, Americans always think it’s all about them.

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