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In his memoirs (largely about 1848 and its aftermath), de Tocqeville said that the French could create anything but a free government and destroy anything but c
by cafard 5y ago
In his memoirs (largely about 1848 and its aftermath), de Tocqeville said that the French could create anything but a free government and destroy anything but centralization. The first half seems to have been disproven.
- selimthegrim 5y agoWas thus when he was writing about Algeria?
- cafard 5y agoThis was Souvenirs (https://shop.albertine.com/livre/9782070405725-souvenirs-alexis-de-tocqueville/ https://shop.albertine.com/livre/9782070405725-souvenirs-ale...). It has been years since I read it, but I believe the only foreign adventure mentioned had to do with Rome.