In the canon
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1856
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 300
Begin in the archives of a provincial intendant, where a dead bureaucracy still files its complaints. Tocqueville went looking for the France the Revolution destroyed and found, in the paperwork, that most of it was already gone: the crown had spent a century stripping the nobles of power and gathering every road, tax and parish decision into Paris, so that the revolutionaries inherited the machine rather than built it.
the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually that when it enters upon the work of reform
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