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Ancien Regime and the French Revolution (Penguin Classics) (original 1856; edition 2008)

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gerald Bevan (Translator), Gerald Bevan (Introduction)

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Title:	Ancien Regime and the French Revolution (Penguin Classics)
Authors:	Alexis de Tocqueville
Other authors:	Gerald Bevan (Translator), Gerald Bevan (Introduction)
Info:	Penguin Classics (2008), Paperback, 336 pages
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AlCracka | Apr 2, 2013 |

I read this excellent first volume of de Tocqueville's planned history of the French Revolution (he didn't live to complete it, alas) in my senior year in college, in a senior seminar on the Russian Revolution. A thorough exegesis of why the French ancien regime was ripe for downfall in 1789. (

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SusannainSC | Mar 31, 2013 |

Toqueville's study of how the development of institutions under the Ancien Régime laid the ground for the Revolution.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Alexis de Tocqueville	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
de Tocqueville	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Baskin, Leonard	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Brogan, Hugh	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Gilbert, Stuart	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Lukacs, John	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Canonical title

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

Original title

L'Ancien regime el la revolution

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1856

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Louis XVI, King of France

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France

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French Revolution (1789)

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No great historical event is better calculated than the French Revolution to teach political writers and statesmen to be cautious in their speculations; for never was any such event, stemming from factors so far back in the past, so inevitable yet so completely unforseen.

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