Tocqeuville believed that everyone was familiar with the rules of war and that the rules could be applied with almost certain success
They were friends
He agreed with him
Why did Tocqueville applaud General Bugeaud's methods?
The conquest and colonization of Algeria
War and Colonization
Changes in French Society
What did Tocqueville believe would restore national pride in France?
War in Africa
The science of war
Colonization
What science is Field Marshal Bugeaud accredited for spreading and perfecting?
Racial segregation in Algeria
This new science
Racial segregation
What did Tocqueville advocate for that came into effect in 1870?
France's taste for material pleasures
A deadly virus
Their taste for "material pleasures"
What did Tocqueville believe was spreading and which society was it spreading through?
Tocqueville thought the conquest of Algeria was important for two reasons: first, his understanding of the international situation and France's position in the world, and, second, changes in French society. Tocqueville believed that war and colonization would "restore national pride, threatened", he believed, by "The gradual softening of social mores" in the middle classes. Their taste for "material pleasures" was spreading to the whole of society, giving it "an example of weakness and egotism". Applauding the methods of General Bugeaud, Tocqueville went so far to claim that "war in Africa is a science. Everyone is familiar with its rules and everyone can apply those rules with almost complete certainty of success. One of the greatest services that Field Marshal Bugeaud has rendered his country is to have spread, perfected and made everyone aware of this new science." Tocqueville advocated racial segregation in Algeria with two distinct legislations, one for European colonists and one for the Arab population. Such a two-tier arrangement would be fully realised with the 1870 Cremieux decree and the Indigenousness Code, which extended French citizenship to European settlers and Algerian Jews, whereas Muslim Algerians would be governed by Muslim law and restricted to a second-class citizenship. 