A Matter of Caste
Colin Kidd: Alexis de Tocqueville, 22 March 2007
Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution
by Hugh Brogan.
Profile, 724 pp., £30, December 2006,1 86197 509 0 Show More
by Hugh Brogan.
Profile, 724 pp., £30, December 2006,
“... and upheld Catholic pieties. However, Hervé de Tocqueville, the father of Alexis, was to marry Louise de Rosanbo, a granddaughter of Chrétien-Guillaume Lamoignon de Malesherbes, a major figure in the legal and administrative noblesse de robe. As an administrator and judge, Malesherbes had censored the work of the philosophes with a light touch and had led ... ”