{"id":"alexis-de-tocqueville","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alexis-de-tocqueville","language":"en","name":"Alexis de Tocqueville","name_en":"Alexis de Tocqueville","name_ne":null,"description":"French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)","headline":"French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, was a French diplomat, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In these, and in reflections on his travels in England and Ireland, he analyzed the living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"29 July 1805","date":"1805-07-29"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Paris","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"16 April 1859","date":"1859-04-16"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Cannes","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39984"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"France","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q142"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"philosopher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4964182"},{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"},{"text":"sociologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2306091"},{"text":"jurist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185351"},{"text":"historian","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201788"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Paris","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209842"},{"text":"Lycée Fabert","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3268665"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Mary Mottley Tocqueville","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59515273"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Minister of Foreign Affairs (2 June 1849 – 31 October 1849)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20203208","start":"1849-06-02","end":"1849-10-31"},{"text":"Deputy of the French Second Republic (13 May 1849 – 2 December 1851)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115148158","start":"1849-05-13","end":"1851-12-02"},{"text":"president (1849–1852)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30461","start":"1849","end":"1852"},{"text":"Member of the 1848 Constituent Assembly (23 April 1848 – 26 May 1849)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115145840","start":"1848-04-23","end":"1849-05-26"},{"text":"member of the National Assembly (1 August 1846 – 24 February 1848)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15272017","start":"1846-08-01","end":"1848-02-24"},{"text":"member of the National Assembly (9 July 1842 – 6 July 1846)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15272017","start":"1842-07-09","end":"1846-07-06"},{"text":"Member of the Académie française (23 December 1841 – 16 April 1859)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18705668","start":"1841-12-23","end":"1859-04-16"},{"text":"member of the National Assembly (2 March 1839 – 12 June 1842)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15272017","start":"1839-03-02","end":"1842-06-12"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Knight of the Legion of Honour","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10855271"},{"text":"Montyon Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q372160","date":"1835"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Alexis de Tocqueville born?","a":"Alexis de Tocqueville was born on 29 July 1805 in Paris."},{"q":"What positions has Alexis de Tocqueville held?","a":"Positions held by Alexis de Tocqueville include: Minister of Foreign Affairs (1849–1849); Deputy of the French Second Republic (1849–1851); president (1849–1852); Member of the 1848 Constituent Assembly (1848–1849); member of the National Assembly (1846–1848)."},{"q":"Where did Alexis de Tocqueville study?","a":"Alexis de Tocqueville was educated at University of Paris, Lycée Fabert."}],"related":[{"name":"Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/edouard-drouyn-de-lhuys"},{"name":"Maurice Schumann","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/maurice-schumann"},{"name":"Jules Ferry","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jules-ferry"},{"name":"Maurice Couve de Murville","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/maurice-couve-de-murville"},{"name":"Claude Cheysson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/claude-cheysson"},{"name":"Guillaume Dubois","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/guillaume-dubois"},{"name":"Pierre Magne","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pierre-magne"},{"name":"Adolphe Crémieux","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolphe-cremieux"},{"name":"Jules Baroche","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jules-baroche"},{"name":"Eugène Eschassériaux","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/eugene-eschasseriaux"},{"name":"Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jean-gilbert-victor-fialin-duc-de-persigny"},{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/alexis-de-tocqueville-7ac7042fa7.jpg","width":500,"height":676,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Théodore Chassériau","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexis_de_Tocqueville_(Th%C3%A9odore_Chass%C3%A9riau_-_Versailles).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Alexis de Tocqueville","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q140694","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Alexis de Tocqueville (Théodore Chassériau - Versailles).jpg by Théodore Chassériau (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexis_de_Tocqueville_(Th%C3%A9odore_Chass%C3%A9riau_-_Versailles).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Alexis de Tocqueville, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Alexis de Tocqueville (Théodore Chassériau - Versailles).jpg — Théodore Chassériau, Public domain.","cite":"\"Alexis de Tocqueville\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/alexis-de-tocqueville. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-03T08:00:38Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/alexis-de-tocqueville","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/alexis-de-tocqueville","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/alexis-de-tocqueville?lang=ne"}}