WHO WAS TOCQUEVILLE? THE FRENCH AND HIS FAMILY THE FRENCH REVOLUTION & TOCQUEVILLE’S FAMILY –French Revolution 1789 – 1799 --Family members guillotined --Democracy & Revolution linked for Tocqueville --Tocqueville Born 1805, Aristocratic family –Father Bourbon supporter: noblesse d’epee --Mother’s family: noblesse de robe NAPOLEON AND THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY –1799 - 1815: Napoleon & The 1st French Empire --1810 - 1820:Tocqueville tutored by Abbe Leseur –1815: Bourbon restoration, Louis XVIII --1821,1823: Tocqueville studies philosophy then law –1824: Charles X (brother of Louis XVI & XVIII) --The July Ordinances of 1830: Charles suspends Constitution THE JULY MONARCHY : 1830-1848 -- 1830: The July Revolution v. July Ordinances –1830: Louis Philippe, King of the French --Constitutional Monarchy with Chamber of Deputies --1831-32: Tocqueville and Beaumont visit America --1839-1848: Tocqueville in the Chamber of Deputies THE SECOND REPUBLIC: 1848 - 1851 –1848: Third French Revolution & The Second Republic --1848-1851 Tocqueville is a member of National Assembly --1849: Tocqueville as Minister of Foreign Affairs --1851: A coup d’etat populaire --1851: The 2nd French Empire and Louis Bonaparte --1852: Tocqueville speaks to French Academy --1852 - 1856: Tocqueville retires and writes The Old Regime TOCQUEVILLE’S CONFLICTS 1. 2. 3. 4. ARISTOCRACY V. DEMOCRACY RELIGION: PERSONAL AND POLITICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE: SCIENCE AND ART LIBERTY AND EQUALITY: CONFLICTIVE ENDS --PRIVATE LIBERTY & AND WEAK EQUALITY --POLITICAL LIBERTY & CIVIC EQUALITY BREAKOUT ROOM TO DISCUSS DEMOCRACY AND AUTHORITARISM TOCQUEVILLE’S VISIT TO AMERICA: 1831-32 1. HIS “VISION”: HE SEES IN THE ORDINARY WHAT OTHERS CAN’T 2. BUT HE WAS HERE FOR ONLY 9 MONTHS 3. THE BREVITY OF HIS STAY MAKES HIS ANALYSIS REMARKABLE 4. VIEWED DEMOCRACY AS A PROBLEM a. PERSONALLY (ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY) b. POLITICALLY (INEVITABLE BUT A FAILURE IN FRANCE) 5. BREAKOUT ROOM TO DISCUSS DEMOCRACY & AUTHORITARIANISM
