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The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
Genre(s): Political Science, Early Modern
Read by Various in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Preface
00:17:56 - 02 - Contradictory Opinions formed upon the Revolution when it broke out
00:25:54 - 03 - That the fundamental and final Object of the Revolution was not, as some have supposed, to destroy religious and to weaken political Authority
00:34:20 - 04 - That the French Revolution, though political, pursued the same Course as a religious Revolution, and why
00:41:07 - 05 - How the same Institutions had been established over nearly all Europe, and were every where falling to pieces
00:49:57 - 06 - What did the French Revolution really achieve?
00:55:31 - 07 - Why the feudal Rights were more odious to the People in France than any where else
01:16:14 - 08 - That we owe 'Administrative Centralization,' not to the Revolution or the Empire, as some say, but to the old Regime
01:32:34 - 09 - That what is now called 'the Guardianship of the State' was an Institution of the old Regime
01:50:18 - 10 - That administrative Tribunals and official Irresponsibility were Institutions of the old Regime
01:59:14 - 11 - How Centralization crept in among the old Authorities, and supplanted without destroying them
02:05:34 - 12 - Of official Manners and Customs under the old Regime
02:23:25 - 13 - How the Capital of France had acquired more Preponderance over the Provinces, and usurped more Control over the Nation, than any other Capital in Europe
02:32:11 - 14 - That Frenchmen had grown more like each other than any other People
02:40:10 - 15 - That these Men, who were so alike, were more divided than they had ever been into petty Groups, each independent of and indifferent to the others
03:07:02 - 16 - How the Destruction of political Liberty and Class Divisions were the Causes of all the Diseases of which the old Regime died
03:27:43 - 17 - Of the kind of Liberty enjoyed under the old Regime, and of its Influence upon the Revolution
03:52:08 - 18 - How the Condition of the French Peasantry was worse in some respects in the Eighteenth Century than it had been in the Thirteenth, notwithstanding the Progress of Civilization
04:23:17 - 19 - How, toward the middle of the Eighteenth Century, literary Men became the leading Politicians of the Country, and of the Effects thereof
04:41:46 - 20 - How Irreligion became a general ruling Passion among Frenchmen in the Eighteenth Century, and of the Influence it exercised over the Character of the Revolution
04:57:35 - 21 - How the French sought Reforms before Liberties
05:18:59 - 22 - That the Reign of Louis XVI. was the most prosperous Era of the old Monarchy, and how that Prosperity really hastened the Revolution
05:37:39 - 23 - How Attempts to relieve the People provoked Rebellion
05:51:56 - 24 - Of certain Practices by means of which the Government completed the revolutionary Education of the People
06:00:52 - 25 - How great administrative Changes had preceded the political Revolution, and of the Consequences thereof
06:19:00 - 26 - How the Revolution sprang spontaneously out of the preceding Facts
06:33:11 - 27 - Appendix
06:53:08 - 28 - Preface
A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville has daguerreotyped French political society under the old monarchy; shown us where the real power lay, and how it affected individual Frenchmen in the daily avocations of life; what was the real condition of the nobility, of the clergy, of the middle classes, of the 'people', of the peasantry; wherein France differed from all other countries in Europe; why a Revolution was inevitable. The information derived under these various heads, it may safely be said, is now first printed. It has been obtained, as M. de Tocqueville informs us, mainly from the manuscript records of the old intendants' offices and the Council of State. Of the labor devoted to the task, an idea may be formed from the author's statement, that more than one of the thirty odd chapters contained in the volume, alone cost him a year's researches.'I trust,' says M. de Tocqueville in his Preface, 'that I have written this work without prejudice; but I can not say I have written without feeling. It would be scarcely proper for a Frenchman to be calm when he speaks of his country, and thinks of the times in which we live. I acknowledge, therefore, that in studying the society of the Old Regime in all its details, I have never lost sight of the society of our own day.'The work abounds with allusions to the Empire and the Emperor. It need hardly be added, that these allusions are not eulogistic of the powers that be. Napoleon has seldom been assailed with more pungent satire or more cogent logic. - Summary by Harper & Brothers, ...
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The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
Genre(s): Political Science, Early Modern
Read by Various in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Preface
00:17:56 - 02 - Contradictory Opinions formed upon the Revolution when it broke out
00:25:54 - 03 - That the fundamental and final Object of the Revolution was not, as some have supposed, to destroy religious and to weaken political Authority
00:34:20 - 04 - That the French Revolution, though political, pursued the same Course as a religious Revolution, and why
00:41:07 - 05 - How the same Institutions had been established over nearly all Europe, and were every where falling to pieces
00:49:57 - 06 - What did the French Revolution really achieve?
00:55:31 - 07 - Why the feudal Rights were more odious to the People in France than any where else
01:16:14 - 08 - That we owe 'Administrative Centralization,' not to the Revolution or the Empire, as some say, but to the old Regime
01:32:34 - 09 - That what is now called 'the Guardianship of the State' was an Institution of the old Regime
01:50:18 - 10 - That administrative Tribunals and official Irresponsibility were Institutions of the old Regime
01:59:14 - 11 - How Centralization crept in among the old Authorities, and supplanted without destroying them
02:05:34 - 12 - Of official Manners and Customs under the old Regime
02:23:25 - 13 - How the Capital of France had acquired more Preponderance over the Provinces, and usurped more Control over the Nation, than any other Capital in Europe
02:32:11 - 14 - That Frenchmen had grown more like each other than any other People
02:40:10 - 15 - That these Men, who were so alike, were more divided than they had ever been into petty Groups, each independent of and indifferent to the others
03:07:02 - 16 - How the Destruction of political Liberty and Class Divisions were the Causes of all the Diseases of which the old Regime died
03:27:43 - 17 - Of the kind of Liberty enjoyed under the old Regime, and of its Influence upon the Revolution
03:52:08 - 18 - How the Condition of the French Peasantry was worse in some respects in the Eighteenth Century than it had been in the Thirteenth, notwithstanding the Progress of Civilization
04:23:17 - 19 - How, toward the middle of the Eighteenth Century, literary Men became the leading Politicians of the Country, and of the Effects thereof
04:41:46 - 20 - How Irreligion became a general ruling Passion among Frenchmen in the Eighteenth Century, and of the Influence it exercised over the Character of the Revolution
04:57:35 - 21 - How the French sought Reforms before Liberties
05:18:59 - 22 - That the Reign of Louis XVI. was the most prosperous Era of the old Monarchy, and how that Prosperity really hastened the Revolution
05:37:39 - 23 - How Attempts to relieve the People provoked Rebellion
05:51:56 - 24 - Of certain Practices by means of which the Government completed the revolutionary Education of the People
06:00:52 - 25 - How great administrative Changes had preceded the political Revolution, and of the Consequences thereof
06:19:00 - 26 - How the Revolution sprang spontaneously out of the preceding Facts
06:33:11 - 27 - Appendix
06:53:08 - 28 - Preface
A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville has daguerreotyped French political society under the old monarchy; shown us where the real power lay, and how it affected individual Frenchmen in the daily avocations of life; what was the real condition of the nobility, of the clergy, of the middle classes, of the 'people', of the peasantry; wherein France differed from all other countries in Europe; why a Revolution was inevitable. The information derived under these various heads, it may safely be said, is now first printed. It has been obtained, as M. de Tocqueville informs us, mainly from the manuscript records of the old intendants' offices and the Council of State. Of the labor devoted to the task, an idea may be formed from the author's statement, that more than one of the thirty odd chapters contained in the volume, alone cost him a year's researches.'I trust,' says M. de Tocqueville in his Preface, 'that I have written this work without prejudice; but I can not say I have written without feeling. It would be scarcely proper for a Frenchman to be calm when he speaks of his country, and thinks of the times in which we live. I acknowledge, therefore, that in studying the society of the Old Regime in all its details, I have never lost sight of the society of our own day.'The work abounds with allusions to the Empire and the Emperor. It need hardly be added, that these allusions are not eulogistic of the powers that be. Napoleon has seldom been assailed with more pungent satire or more cogent logic. - Summary by Harper & Brothers, ...
More information: librivox.org/the-old-regime-and-the-revolution-by-alexis-de-tocqueville
