Souvenirs personnels sur Karl Marx (French Edition)
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I read this book shortly after reading Victor Hugo's "Histoire d'un crime", which also relates first-hand impressions of what happens eighteen months later, when President Louis Napoleon indeed carries out a coup against the Parliament. Victor Hugo was also a member of Parliament though rather more to the left than Tocqueville , was already opposed to Louis Napoleon himself before the coup and, incensed at the audacity of "Napoleon le Petit", tries to lead a counter-revolution against the government by prompting the people to the barricades ultimately this failed too, France ended up as an empire again and Victor Hugo paid for his acts with a year exile.
It is very interesting to compare the two as a rendering of the times from the two perspectives of a cold-blooded, thinking and rather cynical right-wing man Tocqueville and a very hot-blooded left-wing man of action inspired by the heroic romanticism of the era Hugo. Feb 20, Alexander rated it really liked it Shelves: We learn in this book that Tocqueville typically carried a sword-cane for self-defense, and this fact alone is sufficient to prove Tocqueville's coolness.
Recollections on the French Revolution
But beyond this, Tocqueville is frequently noted for his brilliant powers of insight. He possessed an astonishing ability to see what was happening beneath the surface of human behavior. In his more well-known works like Democracy in America, this skill is pressed into analyzing social and political trends and tendencies, but in the Recollecti We learn in this book that Tocqueville typically carried a sword-cane for self-defense, and this fact alone is sufficient to prove Tocqueville's coolness. In his more well-known works like Democracy in America, this skill is pressed into analyzing social and political trends and tendencies, but in the Recollections, his diary of the revolution of , we see him deploy these skills upon individuals, and the result is equally penetrating, but more humorous.
His description of King Louis-Philippe for example, is tremendous.
As it happens I listen to Mike Duncan 's podcast Revolutions which I highly recommend and he is presently going through and I noticed de Tocqueville and his book is mentioned quite a bit and I thought it would be a nice, non-academic, first book on I've long known about de Tocqueville and especially his book on America, but never got around to read anything by him. Glad I finally got to it since I think the book's prose and style is great and it was a pleasure to read. With that in mind I have a hard time believing de Tocqueville's claim that the book isn't written for anyone but himself, but maybe de Tocqueville was just a very gifted writer for whom style came easy.
It is easier to believe he didn't want the book to be published until after everyone mentioned in the book has passed away, since,the portrait's of many of the people in the book isn't very flattering and some passages could have had political implications long after they were written. The book is a memoir from the events leading up to until the government in which de Tocqueville was foreign minister is dissolved in It certainly isn't necessary to know every detail about before reading it, but I do think it helps if you have an overall grasp of the events the episodes covering on Mike Duncan's podcast mentioned above or the wikipedia entry covering the revolution in France in should be enough.
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At least it was for me! As de Tocqueville is a part of the national assembly and later a minister as mentioned in Paris you get a personal take and a real inside view of everything that goes on in the political center of the action. The personal portrait's are many and manages, without any circumlocution, to make the historical character's human's of flesh and blood and with both strengths and flaws which serves to make the events seem more close and alive.
The conflicts in the assembly, later the government and also to some extent the streets and barricades which de Tocqueville both passes on his way to the assembly and also motivates the troops to attack at one point are all described in detail. Maybe it was a subject to dangerous for him to write about with a prison sentence threatening if the writings were ever found by the authorities, but as someone living with a safety barrier of close to years since the events it would have been interesting to read how de Tocqueville reasoned and how he experienced those events.
To me the best part of the book is the days of rebellion in the streets and especially the June days.
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Even though de Tocqueville is writing two years after the fact he manages to capture and convey the tension and emotion which ruled the assembly and Paris those days. And here is really the value of reading a memoir of the events instead of a historian's more sober take which instead usually have the benefit of better disposition and a bird's eye perspective. When the uprising has been spoiler alert! While I'm way more sympathetic to the worker's which make the uprising and their supporters in the assembly than de Tocqueville, I do appreciate his observational and analytical faculties.
He might view the worker's as a greedy bunch, full of vices and seemingly without any redeeming qualities, but he does see their uprising as something which heralded something new.
And I guess that new thing would be, as Mike Duncan points out in his podcast, the separation of the political question the importance of constitution, expanding of the voter base, abolition of hereditary class privilege's and the social question salaries, bread and water, housing, etc in revolutions. Before the political question had been the dominant, with the working class to weak to make the social question an important part of the agenda.
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I don't want it to sound like that is all de Tocqueville analytical abilities manage to muster. As a man of the center in the assembly he was in those days in quite a precarious position with the assembly filled with both many feeling the abolition of the old had not gone far enough and many others feeling it had gone way to far.
This gives de Tocqueville plenty of opportunity to analyze political character's, events and positions. There is one piece missing though, which is not very surprising given the nature of the book as a memoir for himself of the events, which is an explanation of his understanding and defense freedom.
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My guess is that Democracy in America is the book for that. A book I highly recommend if you have an interest in 19th century history, uprisings or have an interest in de Tocqueville. If you want a comprehensive book of everything that happened in , this is not the book for you.
He actually wrote after the events at hand, but still within just a few years. Return to Book Page. Feb 20, Alexander rated it really liked it Shelves: Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. I'd like to read this book on Kindle Don't have a Kindle? Jun 08, Paul rated it really liked it. Justin Bendana rated it it was amazing Mar 31,
If you want a personal memoir from the streets and the national assembly in Paris this year of revolutions in Europe, this certainly is the book for you. Jun 08, Paul rated it really liked it. Much more personal and even caustic than Tocqueville's more detached works like Democracy in America; so the Frenchman's extraordinary perception shines through in unexpected ways. Apr 05, Alex rated it really liked it. A view of revolution through the eyes of a minister from that period. It seems to be a clear picture of a difficult era.
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