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The Old Order and the Revolution

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Alexis de Tocqueville's The Old Order and the Revolution (1856) opened a new period of study of the French Revolution. Trying to find out its origins, Tocqueville discovered that the old order that preceded the Revolution had been completely forgotten and had become incomprehensible. And now it was necessary to go to the archives and restore the image of that France. This was the only way to explain why the Revolution had taken place and why its course and results had been such and not such. Thus he set a new scientific program of research into the genesis and nature of the coup. Tocqueville himself found out that the French had not so sharply broken with their past as it seemed to them, that even from this past they had transferred many former ideas, habits, and aspirations to their new state, that many things that were seen as the beginning of the Revolution had originated in the Old Order. Tocqueville pointed out that the French aspired more to equality than to liberty, to equality even under a despot than to personal independence. In the rest of Europe there were essentially the same orders as in pre-revolutionary France, that everywhere these orders were falling, and that in France their abolition began only earlier than elsewhere.
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