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Two weeks in the wilds American (Quinze jours dans le désert), Alexis de Tocqueville

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26/04/2011

Nobody can deny that the journey taken by Alexis de Tocqueville (Verneuil in Normandy, 1805 - Cannes, 1859) to America in April 1831 proved most helpful, both for his own personal biography to science, politics and literature. In the company of Gustave de Beaumont, colleague, friend and later editor of his work, Tocqueville moved to the New World on behalf of the French Government of the time in order to examine the American prison system, the object at the time of major reforms and innovations. Around the nine-month journey on American soil, was duly published the report the prison system in the United States and its implementation in France that accounts for the research carried out by both lawyers.

But observation and investigation of Tocqueville were not confined to such professional work, most civil service. The study of penal and prison field, as well as the official reason for the trip itself was only a pretext in existential and intellectual adventure. France, since 1789 in constant turmoil, starring at that time an innovation : the new order led by Luis Felipe altering the order of succession in the dynastic line gala. Tocqueville, who has by then twenty-six years and is a judge of the court of Versailles auditor puts land and ocean apart to discover new horizons and new realities.

Barataria This edition contains the main text that reflects the views of the expedition conducted by Tocqueville and Beaumont from Detroit to Saginaw, between 19 and 29 July 1831. Beaumont was published after the death of a friend in the Revue des deux mondes (1860) and subsequently in Œ VRES Complètes , with the title of "Quinze tours dans le désert" . As an annex, also includes the personal diary of Tocqueville ("Travel Notes in the west") started a few days before that, July 4 (day of the U.S. national holiday), and ending where it begins the narration of the text which underlies this book. Tocqueville

look carefully not only the social, cultural, economic and political development of the United States. Also the landscape, people, nature of the place, get their attention and encourage their desire browser. The raid by American wilderness, by still virgin land The U.S., through early colonization sites. Contact with pioneers from Europe coincides in time and space with native Indians. Everyone has something to ask. Of all want to learn about the essence of those lands promising.

However, Tocqueville does not forget France. His journey is return. Knowing Latin will help you learn more about Europe and the rest of the world. With these words, elegant prose, lucid mind, the notebook is closed traveler:

"was in the midst of this deep loneliness that I suddenly remembered the Revolution of 1830 of which marked the first anniversary. I can not explain what appeared impetuous in my mind the memories of that July 29. The screams and the smoke of battle, the cannon and the rattle of musketry, the even more terrible peals of bells playing the alarm, all day with his inflamed atmosphere suddenly seemed to emerge from the past and displayed as a table in my living eyes. It was only a sudden illumination, a passing dream. When raising the head, and looked around me, the apparition had vanished, but the silence of the forest never seemed so cold and so dark shadows, and my loneliness so absolute. " (p. 92).

And without that trip Voyage, as fruitful, and discoverer of passage, "without the antics and adventures described here would not have been composed instrumental works such as political thought Democracy in America (1835, 1850) and The Old Regime and Revolution (1854).