When did Tocqueville retire from political life?
December 1851
July 1830
April 1859
January 1848
Answer
Alexis de Tocqueville retired from political life in December 1851. He had been a member of the French parliament since 1839, but he resigned after the coup d'état that brought Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte to power. Tocqueville was opposed to Bonaparte's authoritarian regime, and he believed that it represented a threat to the French Republic. He spent the rest of his life writing and lecturing about democracy and its future.
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