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Alexis de Tocqueville: Early Life
Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 into an aristocratic family recently rocked by France’s revolutionary upheavals.
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Both of his parents had been jailed during the Reign of Terror. After attending college in Metz, Tocqueville studied law in Paris and was appointed a magistrate in Versailles, where he met his future wife and befriended a fellow lawyer named Gustave de Beaumont.
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During his travels in the United States, one of the first things that surprised Alexis de Tocqueville about American culture was how early everyone seemed to eat breakfast.
In 1830 Louis-Philippe, the “bourgeois monarch,” took the French throne, and Tocqueville’s career ambitions were temporarily blocked.
Unable to advance, he and Beaumont secured permission to carry out a study of the American penal system, and in April 1831 they set sail for Rhode Island.
Alexis de Tocqueville: American Travels
From Sing-Sing Prison to the Michigan woods, from New