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THE STATE OF

SOCIETY IN FRANCE

BEFORE THE

REVOLUTION OF 1789

AND THE

CAUSES WHICH LED TO THAT EVENT

By ALEXIS de TOCQUEVILLE

MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY

TRANSLATED BY HENRY REEVE, D.C.L.

THIRD EDITION

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1888

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PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
Translator’s Preface to the Second Edition[5]
Preliminary Notice[9]
BOOK I.
CHAPTER
I.Opposing Judgments passed on the French Revolution at its Origin1
II.The Fundamental and Final Object of the Revolution was not, as
has been supposed, the destruction of Religious Authority and
the weakening of Political Power
5
III.Showing that the French Revolution was a Political Revolution
which followed the course of Religious Revolutions, and for what
Reasons
9
IV.Showing that nearly the whole of Europe had had precisely
the same Institutions, and that these Institutions were everywhere
falling to pieces
12
V.What was the peculiar scope of the French Revolution16
BOOK II.
I.Why Feudal Rights had become more odious to the People in
France than in any other country
...

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