Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and The French Revolution

In The Old Regime and the French Revolution Alexis de Tocqueville allows us to glimpse at the circumstances that lead to the French Revolution. In Tocqueville's mind there was never an event in which "stemming from factors so far back in the past, so inevitable yet so completely unforeseen." (1) In this work he talks about the events that led up to the French Revolution and the French form of democracy that replaced the past leadership.
Tocqueville wrote this work back in the 1500s when some of the people that experienced the Revolution were still alive. The book is interesting in the fact that Tocqueville wrote about the causes of the Revolution, when at the time he could of wrote about the effects of it because he was still feeling them through out the country of France.
Alexis de Tocqueville posses the name of an aristocrat, even after the Revolution, however he had no power of the rich upper class. Through out the book Tocqueville reminisces of the good old days of France,...