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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction, Olivier Zunz
Tocqueville’s Literary Style, Arthur Goldhammer
Chronology
Recollections
Part 1: Written in July 1850 (at Tocqueville)
Chapter 1. [Origin and character of these recollections.—General features of the era prior to the revolution of 1848.—Precursors of that revolution.]
Chapter 2. [Banquets—Security of the government.—Preoccupation of the leaders of the opposition.—Impeachment of ministers.]
Chapter 3. [Disturbances of February 22.—Session of February 23.—New government.—Sentiments of M. Dufaure and M. de Beaumont.]
Chapter 4. [February 24.—The ministers’ plan of resistance.—The National Guard.—General Bedeau.]
Chapter 5. [Chamber session.—Mme la duchesse d’Orléans.—Provisional government.]
Part 2
Chapter 1. My judgment of the causes of February 24 and my thoughts as to what would emerge from it.
Chapter 2. Paris the day after February 24, and the days that followed.—Socialist character of the new revolution.
Chapter 3. Uncertainty of former parliamentarians concerning what attitude to take. My own reflections on what I ought to do and my resolutions.
Chapter 4. My candidacy in the département of La Manche.—Description of the province.—The general election.
Chapter 5. First meeting of the Constituent Assembly.—Character of this Assembly.
Chapter 6. My relations with Lamartine.—His equivocations.
Chapter 7. May 15, 1848
Chapter 8. The Festival of Concord and preparation for the June Days
Chapter 9. June Days
Chapter 10. More on the June Days
Chapter 11. Constitutional commission
Part 3: My Ministry: June 3–October 29, 1849
Chapter 1. Return to France.—Formation of the cabinet.
Chapter 2. Composition of the cabinet.—Its first actions until after the attempted insurrection of June 13.
Chapter 3. Domestic government.—Intestine quarrels in the cabinet.—Its difficulties with the majority and the president.
Chapter 4. Foreign affairs
Appendices to Part 1: [February 24, 1848–October 1850]
Conversation with Barrot (October 10, 1850). February 24 according to Barrot.
Incidents from February 24, 1848. Efforts by M. Dufaure and his friends to prevent the February revolution.—Responsibility of M. Thiers for neutralizing their efforts.
Dufaure’s conduct on February 24, 1848
February 24, according to G. de Beaumont
Appendices to Parts 2 and 3: [1848 and 1849–April 1851]
Notes for Recollections covering the period from June 1848 to June 1849 (April 1851). Note on the part that should extend from the June Days to my ministry.
Various notes on the parts of my Recollections that remain to be written (April 1851 en route home)
Formation of the cabinet
Foreign affairs
Conversation I had with the president of the Republic on May 15, 1851. (I saw him for the first time since my return from Italy.)
Revision of the constitution. Conversation I had with Berryer on June 21, 1851, in a meeting at my house. We were both members of the committee for the revision of the constitution.
Appendix 3: [Toward Empire.—December 1851–April 1857]
Correspondence, Speeches, Occasional Texts, and Notes
February 1848
Foreword to the twelfth edition of Democracy in America, 1848
Tocqueville to Nassau Senior, Paris, April 10, 1848
The Electoral Campaign of March–April 1848 and Universal Male Suffrage
To Paul Clamorgam, March 7, 1848
Campaign circular, March 19, 1848
Popular banquet in Cherbourg, March 19, 1848
Response by Alexis de Tocqueville to the president of the Valognes electoral committee, March 26, 1848
To Marie de Tocqueville, Friday evening [March 17, 1848]
To Marie de Tocqueville, Cherbourg, March 19, 1848
To Marie de Tocqueville, March 20, 1848
To Marie de Tocqueville, Thursday [March 23, 1848]
To Marie de Tocqueville, [Friday, March 24, 1848?]
To Marie de Tocqueville, Wednesday evening [March 29, 1848]
To Marie de Tocqueville, Saint-Lô, Thursday evening [March 30, 1848]
To Gustave de Beaumont, Tocqueville, April 22, 1848
To William Rathbone Greg, Saint-Cyr near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, July 27, 1853
The Debate on the Constitution
[Constitutional commission] session of May 25, 1848
[Constitutional commission], May 27, 1848
Speech to the Constituent Assembly on the proposed constitution, concerning the right to work. Session of September 12, 1848
[Constituent Assembly] speech on the election of the president of the Republic, session of October 5, 1848
On Socialism and Democracy
[On socialism]
Definition of democracy
Before, During, and After the June Days
To Paul Clamorgam, June 24, 1848
To Marie de Tocqueville, June 24, 1848
To Zacharie Gallemand, June 25, 1848
To Eugène Stöffels, Paris, July 21, 1848
To Gustave de Beaumont, Paris, September 24, 1848
Elections to the Legislative Assembly
Proposed election circular (May 1849)
Foreign Affairs: Germany
To Gustave de Beaumont, Frankfurt, May 18, 1849
Foreign Affairs: The Roman Question
Response to questions from Mauguin and Savoye, [Legislative Assembly] session of June 25, 1849
[Legislative Assembly] session of October 18, 1849
To Francisque de Corcelle, Paris, July 11, 1849
To Francisque de Corcelle, Paris, July 30, 1849
To Francisque de Corcelle, Paris, September 2, 1849
After the Ministry
To Gustave de Beaumont, Paris, November 4, 1849
To Arthur de Gobineau, Paris, January 7, 1850
To Mrs. Harriet Grote, Tocqueville, June 25, 1850
To Gustave de Beaumont, Tocqueville, September 9, 1850
From Sorrento
To Louis de Kergorlay, Sorrento, December 15, 1850
To Armand Dufaure, Sorrento, December 22, 1850
To Francisque de Corcelle, February 21, 1851
Constitutional Revision
Note on the proposed revision, May 1851
[Legislative Assembly] report by M. de Tocqueville on behalf of the committee charged with considering the proposed revision of the constitution, session of July 8, 1851
Before Louis-Napoléon’s Coup
To Francisque de Corcelle, Grille du Grand Montreuil, Versailles, September 13, 1851
To Gustave de Beaumont, Grille du Grand Montreuil, Versailles, September 14, 1851
After Louis-Napoléon’s Coup
To Édouard de Tocqueville, Sunday, December 7, 1851
To Jean-Bernardin Rouxel, Paris, December 14, 1851
Note for the comte de Chambord, January 24, 1852
To Francis Lieber, Tocqueville, August 4, 1852
Biographical Dictionary
Acknowledgments
Index
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