The Old Regime and the French Revolution

Name: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
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Alexis de Tocqueville(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 22. Dezember 2010

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Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Part 1
Chapter One - Conflicting opinions of the Revolution at its outbreak
Chapter Two - How the chief and ultimate aim of the Revolution was not, as used to be thought, to overthrow religious and to weaken political authority in France
Chapter Three - How, though its objectives were political, the French Revolution followed the lines of a religious revolution and why this was so
Chapter Four - How almost all European nations had had the same institutions and how these were breaking down everywhere
Chapter Five - What did the French Revolution accomplish?
Part 2
Chapter One - Why feudalism had come to be more detested in France than in any other country
Chapter Two - How administrative centralization was an institution of the old régime and not, as is often thought, a creation of the Revolution or the Napoleonic period
Chapter Three - How paternal government, as it is called today, had been practiced under the old régime
Chapter Four - How administrative justice and the immunity of public servants were institutions of the old régime
Chapter Five - How the idea of centralized administration was established among the ancient powers, which it supplanted, without, however, destroying them
Chapter Six - Of the methods of administration under the old régime
Chapter Seven - How in France, more than in any other European country, the provinces had come under the thrall of the metropolis, which attracted to itself all that was most vital in the nation
Chapter Eight - How France had become the country in which men were most like each other
Chapter Nine - How, though in many respects so similar, the French were split up more than ever before into small, isolated, self-regarding groups
Chapter Ten - How the suppression of political freedom and the barriers set up between classes brought on most of the diseases to which the old régime succumbed
Chapter Eleven - Of the nature of the freedom prevailing under the old régime and of its influence on the Revolution
Chapter Twelve - How, despite the progress of civilization, the lot of the French peasant was sometimes worse in the eighteenth century than it had been in the thirteenth
Part 3
Chapter One - How towards the middle of the eighteenth century men of letters took the lead in politics and the consequences of this new development
Chapter Two - How vehement and widespread anti-religious feeling had become in eighteenth-century France and its influence on the nature of the Revolution
Chapter Three - How the desire for reforms took precedence of the desire for freedom
Chapter Four - How, though the reign of Louis XVI was the most prosperous period of the monarchy, this very prosperity hastened the outbreak of the Revolution
Chapter Five - How the spirit of revolt was promoted by well-intentioned efforts to improve the people's lot
Chapter Six - How certain practices of the central power completed the revolutionary education of the masses
Chapter Seven - How revolutionary changes in the administrative system preceded the political revolution and their consequences
Chapter Eight - How, given the facts set forth in the preceding chapters, the Revolution was a foregone conclusion
Appendix - The pays D'états, with special reference to Languedoc
Notes
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