SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: John Stuart Mill, Alexis De Tocqueville, French Revolution
3 Dec 2016
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1805-1859: man of enormous passion for liberty liberty sums up tocqueville in one words. His noble background is part of the new world of french revolution. His family comes from the old world; confronted with the new. His parents were arrested during the terror and survived. His mom"s hair turned white in a single night and she was enormously traumatized and always a nervous wreck. Tocqueville was proud of his relationship with his great uncle who as brave enough to defend louis 16th at his trial before he was executes. His father in 1815 returned france from exile and became a member of the restored old regime once napoleon failed. He had a private tutor and became a lawyer in. In 1830: fundamentally splits from his family because he swears loyalty to the new regime. His father refuse to serve any longer.
