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French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)

Also known as: Alexis Clérel de Tocqueville, Alexis Henri Charles de Clérel, vicomte de Tocqueville, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville, Charles Alexis Henri Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville, De Tocqueville, Tocqueville

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Known works

De la démocratie en Amérique (2006)
L'ancien régime et la Révolution (1856)
Mémoire sur le paupérisme
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America
Letters from America