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To: JohnBrowdie

The French conservative Alexis de Toqueville wrote the Ancien Regime - a masterful analysis of what led to the French Revolution.

Basically you had a decrepit old regime caught against rising demands for freedom, an end to unfair taxation and the special privileges enjoyed by the few in the Church and the aristocracy.

It couldn’t reform fast enough to meet those demands and when it refused the social and political pillars of its existence disappeared literally overnight.

Tocqueville is on the whole complimentary to it because as a middle class child, he would never been able to go as far as his ability and talents would have taken him under the Ancien Regime.

Without the French Revolution, its hard to see him ever have written his masterpiece, Democracy In America.


21 posted on 04/08/2018 3:52:11 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

this is about as politely as I can put his; you are alarmingly uninformed on the subject in the revolution in france (and it’s actually a bit offensive that you attempt to compare it to the american revolution).

I believe there may be a few more works on the subject of the french revolution other than the one you read.


22 posted on 04/08/2018 3:57:51 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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