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1856

The Ancien Régime

Alexis de Tocqueville - 1856

The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution — the so-called "Ancien Régime" — and investigates the causes and forces that brought about the Revolution.

It is one of the major early historical works on the French Revolution.See Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_...

The Old Regime and the French Revolution