title: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
author:  Alexis de Tocqueville 
description: <b>Alexis de Tocqueville</b>(18051859) was a French politician and theorist. He wrote<i>Democracy in America</i>after visiting the United States during which he observed various elements of the prison system. He continued on to serve in the French parliament and also wrote many works, including<i>The Old Regime and the Revolution</i>.
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  # France in the Nineteenth Century
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Elizabeth Latimer
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
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  NOTE.
  
  
  CHAPTER I. CHARLES X. AND THE DAYS OF JULY.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. LOUIS PHILIPPE AND HIS FAMILY.
  
  
  CHAPTER III. LOUIS NAPOLEON'S EARLY
  
  
  CAREER.—STRASBURG, BOULOGNE, HAM.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. TEN YEARS OF THE REIGN OF THE CITIZEN
  
  
  KING.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. SOME CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1848.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. THE DOWNFALL OF LOUIS PHILIPPE.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. LAMARTINE AND THE SECOND REPUBLIC.[1]
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE COUP D'ETAT.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE EMPEROR'S MARRIAGE.
  
  
  CHAPTER X. MAXIMILIAN AND MEXICO.[1]
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS AT THE SUMMIT
  
  
  OF PROSPERITY.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. PARIS IN 1870: JULY, AUGUST, AND
  
  
  SEPTEMBER.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. THE SIEGE OF PARIS.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. THE PRUSSIANS IN FRANCE.
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. THE COMMUNE.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. THE HOSTAGES.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. THE GREAT REVENGE.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. THE 