01962cam a22003133u 4500 54339 UtSlPG 20260610134243.0 m cr n 260607r2017||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 DC Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 L'ancien régime et la révolution Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2017 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Regime_and_the_Revolution Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Ancien_R%C3%A9gime_et_la_R%C3%A9volution Release date is 2017-03-10 Produced by Clarity, Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "L'ancien régime et la révolution" by Alexis de Tocqueville is an essay published in 1856. Writing decades after the French Revolution, Tocqueville investigates its origins and challenges conventional understanding. He argues the Revolution was not a sudden break but the culmination of centuries-long processes, particularly state centralization. Examining why France—the most politically advanced nation—experienced such upheaval, he reveals paradoxes: the Revolution both destroyed and continued the old regime's institutions, and progress itself accelerated the collapse of feudal society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54339 95173 95173