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Alexis de Tocqueville  

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a French statesman, political thinker, and founder of comparative-historical sociology. Tocqueville was born in Paris to an aristocratic family that had suffered the depredations of the French Revolution. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Tocqueville, Alexis de]

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