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Jan 1, 1802 — Jan 1, 1866· 64 yrs

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Gustave de Beaumont

Also known as: Gustave Auguste de Beaumont de la Bonnière, Gustave De Beaumont

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Beaumont, originally de Beaumont, is an English surname of Norman origin or a French surname (from French beau mont, "beautiful mountain").

Beaumont-sur-Dême, France
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AMONG the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of condition among the people.

— from De la démocratie en Amérique, 2006

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MARIE OU L'ESCLAVAGE AUX ETATS-UNIS TOME II - Notes, Appendice, Annexes

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Gustave de Beaumont a écrit Marie ou l'esclavage aux Etats-Unis au retour d'un voyage d'étude de dix mois effectué en compagnie d'Alexis de Tocqueville. Il choisit d'aborder l'exposé des moeurs américaines à partir du statut des minorités. Il s'intéresse au sort des esclaves et, plus précisément, à celui de l'individu de couleur libre. Ce deuxième tome rassemble les notes et appendices de Gustave de Beaumont et, en annexe, des extraits de textes d'Alexis de Tocqueville.

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Du système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis et de son application en France

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De la démocratie en Amérique

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A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist. In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower, and remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system.

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