![]() Starting in Newport, R.I., on May 9, 1831, Tocqueville and Beaumont embarked on a remarkable journey, traveling the length and breadth of the infant United States, from the East Coast to the Mississippi River. ![]() ![]() The experiences and observations made during their subsequent nine-month journey became the basis for “Democracy in America.” One historian has called it “perhaps the greatest commentary ever written about any culture by any person at any time.” Tocqueville and his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont, were sent by the French government to study new experimental prisons in the U.S. ![]() Written by David Mawson, Doherty High School, Worcester Public Schools IntroductionĪlexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat born in 1805 (the year after Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of France) traveled to the United States in 1831. ![]()
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