Alexis de Tocqueville\'s Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 Revolution in France.
In Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and I.
Written just before Louis-Napol on Bonaparte\'s 1851 coup prompted the great theorist of democracy to retire from political life, it was initially conceived simply as an exercise in candid personal reflection.
Despite its bravura passages and stylistic flourishes, however, it was not intended for publication.
Alexis de Tocqueville\'s Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848 Revolution in France