
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789
The Cause of RevolutionBy Alexis de TocquevilleLength15h 46m
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The book I now publish is not a history of the French Revolution; that history has been written with too much success for me to attempt to write it again. This volume is a study on the Revolution. The French people made, in 1789, the greatest effort which was ever attempted by any nation to cut, so to speak, their destiny in halves, and to separate by an abyss that which they had heretofore been from that which they sought to become hereafter. For this purpose, they took all sorts of precautions to carry nothing of their past with them into their new condition; they submitted to every species of constraint in order to fashion themselves otherwise than their fathers were; they neglected nothing which could efface their identity.
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GenreHistory
Length15 hrs 46 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 2, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Translator’s Preface
20Chapter XI.
2Preliminary Notice
21Chapter XII.
3BOOK I.
22Chapter XIII.
4Chapter I.
23Chapter XIV.
5Chapter II.
24Chapter XV.
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6Chapter III.
25Chapter XVI.
7Chapter IV.
26Chapter XVII.
8Chapter V.
27Chapter XVIII.
9BOOK II.
28Chapter XIX.
10Chapter I.
29Chapter XX.
11Chapter II.
30BOOK III.
12Chapter III.
31Chapter I.
13Chapter IV.
32Chapter II.
14Chapter V.
33Chapter III.
15Chapter VI.
34Chapter IV.
16Chapter VII.
35Chapter V.
17Chapter VIII.
36Chapter VI.
18Chapter IX.
37Chapter VII. (pt. 1)
19Chapter X.
38Chapter VII. (pt. 2)