Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Clérelde

Tocque·ville (tōkʹvĭl, tŏkʹ-, tôk-vēlʹ), Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de. 1805-1859.

French politician, traveler, and historian. After touring the United States (1831-1832), he wrote Democracy in America (1835), a widely influential study of American institutions.

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