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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 to 16 April 1859), was a French diplomat, political philosopher and historian.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1846 to 1847period
Algeriaattested“It seems that Tocqueville modified his views after his second visit to Algeria in 1846 as he criticized Bugeaud's desire to invade Kabylia in an 1847 speech to the Assembly.”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
1855year
Americaattested“Tocqueville observes among the American races: Tocqueville contrasted the settlers of Virginia with the middle class, religious Puritans who founded New England and analyzed the debasing influence of slavery: Tocqueville maintained that…”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
1855year
Liberty Bellattested“Tocqueville observes among the American races: Tocqueville contrasted the settlers of Virginia with the middle class, religious Puritans who founded New England and analyzed the debasing influence of slavery: Tocqueville maintained that…”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
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1831year
United Statesmentioned“In 1831, Tocqueville obtained from the July Monarchy a mission to examine prisons and penitentiaries in the United States and proceeded there with his lifelong friend Gustave de Beaumont.”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
United Statesmentioned“He returned within nine months and published a report, The Penitentiary System in the United States, although the more well-known result of his tour was his major work Democracy in America, which appeared in 1835.”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
May 1835month
Englandmentioned“In May 1835, Tocqueville returned to England but then in summer with Beaumont travelled on to Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
May 1835month
Irelandmentioned“In May 1835, Tocqueville returned to England but then in summer with Beaumont travelled on to Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
1839year
Algeriamentioned“Having himself entertained the possibility of settling in Algeria as a colonist, from his election to the Chamber of Deputies in 1839 Tocqueville had come to be seen as the parliament's foremost expert on the colony.”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
1841year
Kabyliamentioned“Although in his 1841 report on Algeria he applauded Bugeaud for making war in a way that defeated Abd-el-Kader's resistance, he had advocated in the Two Letters that the French military advance leave Kabylia undisturbed and in subsequent…”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
1851 to 1871period
Vincennesmentioned“Detained at Vincennes and then released, Tocqueville, who supported the Restoration of the Bourbons against Napoleon III's Second Empire (1851–1871), quit political life and retreated to his castle ().”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
2 December 1851exact date
10th arrondissement of Parismentioned“Opposed to Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup which followed his election, Tocqueville was among the deputies who gathered at the 10th arrondissement of Paris in an attempt to resist the coup and have Napoleon III judged for…”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
16 April 1859exact date
Normandymentioned“A longtime sufferer from bouts of tuberculosis, Tocqueville eventually succumbed to the disease on 16 April 1859 and was buried in the Tocqueville cemetery in Normandy.”source: Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville
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