How to pronounce “tocqueville” in English

Then we had some foreigners come along-- this is Alexis de Tocqueville, the famous Frenchman who toured America.

The other one you my read is Alexis de Tocqueville who has a lot to say about American character.

I think what you really -- I mean what de Tocqueville said when he went to America was, he said the reason why America does so well is multiplicity of sects.

Donc en réalité, il y a Alexis de Tocqueville qui se posait la question de savoir si, en fait, la politique ne se réduisait pas

Yeah, I mean, I obviously de Tocqueville was all over this book and he he he worries deeply about that question, right?

Yeah, you know, that's de Tocqueville is such an interesting character.

And that's why probably the greatest book on American democracy was written by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville.

And so I think I sort of, you know, look at de Tocqueville and say, um,

And if nothing else fills that space, those de Tocqueville intermediary institutions, religion, community, family, civic life, all of

This you find in romanticism, you find in democracy, you find in the invention of the word individualism by de Tocqueville in the 1830's.