Summary
Alexis De Tocqueville: The Old Regime and the Revolution
The book I am publishing is by no means a history of the revolution, because such a book has already been written in such a great way that I could even think of writing it again: this is, simply, a study of that revolution. In 1789, the French made the greatest effort that any nation has ever made in order not to tear their destiny apart, so to speak, and to separate what they had been until then from what they wanted to be in the future. With this goal in mind, they took various security measures in order not to burden their new position with anything from the past: they imposed various restrictions on themselves in order to shape themselves in a different way than their fathers had created; they finally forgot nothing that could make them unrecognizable.
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