POLSCI 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: July Monarchy, Alexis De Tocqueville
17 Jul 2018
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He talks about the one big trend though the last thousand years in europe is inaccessble creep of inequality . The toeqvuille people were aristocrats in the 19th century. You go from absolute monarchy into an extreme scatter. 1793-1794 > the french revolution got very violent. The begin got the enemies of the people . Both of toqvuielles parents barely survived that time. In order to keep france weak the bourbon rest oration occurred. People like toqville wanted to be a parliamentarian. They were looking for an english style of society. He explains to his aristocrats how they should react to democracy . He is not talking about the rule of the people. He is talking about democracy as a huge social and cultural change and he is irresistible of. The crashing of a wave over france and to push out the sea in those tsunami hits in which is not going to work because the sea is rising.
