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Alexis de Tocqueville

1805 - 1859

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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both, he analyzed the living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexis de Tocqueville has received more than 2,887,470 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Alexis de Tocqueville is the 11th most popular historian, the 203rd most popular biography from France (down from 186th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Historian.

Alexis de Tocqueville is most famous for his book "Democracy in America." He traveled to the United States in 1831 and wrote a book about his experiences.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alexis de Tocqueville ranks 11 out of 561. Before him are Xenophon, Sima Qian, Livy, Polybius, Tacitus, and Suetonius. After him are Diodorus Siculus, Hecataeus of Miletus, Manetho, Thomas Kuhn, Mircea Eliade, and William of Tyre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Alexis de Tocqueville ranks 4. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen, Joseph Smith, and Giuseppe Mazzini. After him are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Ferdinand de Lesseps, William Rowan Hamilton, Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, and Maria Anna of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1859, Alexis de Tocqueville ranks 3. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt, and Klemens von Metternich. After him are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Oscar I of Sweden, Carl Ritter, John Vianney, Wilhelm Grimm, Josip Jelačić, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, Washington Irving, and Bettina von Arnim.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis de Tocqueville ranks 203 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Cuvier (1769), Pope Gregory XI (1370), Erik Satie (1866), Guy of Lusignan (1150), Charles the Bold (1433), and François Truffaut (1932). After him are Letizia Ramolino (1750), Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Jean Marais (1913), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Roland Barthes (1915), and Margaret of Valois (1553).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Alexis de Tocqueville ranks 2. Before him are Tacitus (54). After him are Fernand Braudel (1902), Marc Bloch (1886), Hippolyte Taine (1828), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Lucien Febvre (1878), François Guizot (1787), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Gaston Maspero (1846), and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929).

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