The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville (1896)
These are Tocqueville’s memoirs of the 1848 Revolution in France during which he was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies and a supporter the “party or order” against the socialists.
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville, edited by the Comte de Tocqueville and now first translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. With a portrait in Heliogravure (New York: Macmillan, 1896).
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Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
- PART THE FIRST
- CHAPTER I: ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF THESE RECOLLECTIONS—GENERAL ASPECT OF THE PERIOD PRECEDING THE REVOLUTION OF 1848—PRELIMINARY SYMPTOMS OF THE REVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER II: THE BANQUETS—SENSE OF SECURITY ENTERTAINED BY THE GOVERNMENT—ANXIETY OF LEADERS OF THE OPPOSITION—ARRAIGNMENT OF MINISTERS.
- CHAPTER III: TROUBLES OF THE 22ND OF FEBRUARY—THE SITTING OF THE 23RD—THE NEW MINISTRY—OPINIONS OF M. DUFAURE AND M. DE BEAUMONT.
- CHAPTER IV: THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY—THE MINISTERS’ PLAN OF RESISTANCE—THE NATIONAL GUARD—GENERAL BEDEAU.
- CHAPTER V: THE SITTING OF THE CHAMBER—MADAME LA DUCHESSE D’ORLÉANS—THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
- PART THE SECOND
- CHAPTER I: MY EXPLANATION OF THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, AND MY VIEWS AS TO ITS EFFECTS UPON THE FUTURE.
- CHAPTER II: PARIS ON THE MORROW OF THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY AND THE NEXT DAYS—THE SOCIALISTIC CHARACTER OF THE NEW REVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER III: VACILLATION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE OLD PARLIAMENT AS TO THE ATTITUDE THEY SHOULD ADOPT—MY OWN REFLECTIONS ON MY MODE OF ACTION, AND MY RESOLVES.
- CHAPTER IV: MY CANDIDATURE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LA MANCHE—THE ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY—THE GENERAL ELECTION.
- CHAPTER V: THE FIRST SITTING OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY—THE APPEARANCE OF THIS ASSEMBLY.
- CHAPTER VI: MY RELATIONS WITH LAMARTINE—HIS SUBTERFUGES
- CHAPTER VII: THE 15TH OF MAY 1848.
- CHAPTER VIII: THE FEAST OF CONCORD AND THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE DAYS OF JUNE.
- CHAPTER IX: THE DAYS OF JUNE.
- CHAPTER X: THE DAYS OF JUNE—(continued).
- CHAPTER XI1: THE COMMITTEE FOR THE CONSTITUTION.
- PART THE THIRD
- MY TERM OF OFFICE
- CHAPTER I: MY RETURN TO FRANCE—FORMATION OF THE CABINET.
- CHAPTER II: ASPECT OF THE CABINET—ITS FIRST ACTS UNTIL AFTER THE INSURRECTIONARY ATTEMPTS OF THE 13TH OF JUNE.
- CHAPTER III: OUR DOMESTIC POLICY—INTERNAL QUARRELS IN THE CABINET—ITS DIFFICULTIES IN ITS RELATIONS WITH THE MAJORITY AND THE PRESIDENT.
- CHAPTER IV: FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- APPENDIX
- I: GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT’S VERSION OF THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY.
- II: BARROT’S VERSION OF THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY.
- III: SOME INCIDENTS OF THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY 1848.
- 1: M. Dufaure’s efforts to prevent the Revolution of February—Responsibility of M. Thiers, which renders them futile.
- 2: Dufaure’s conduct on the 24th of February 1848.
- IV: MY CONVERSATION WITH BERRYER, ON THE 21ST OF JUNE, AT AN APPOINTMENT WHICH I HAD GIVEN HIM AT MY HOUSE. WE WERE BOTH MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION.
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