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Chapter Eight exorcises the Burkean demon while establishing Tocqueville’s authority: Tocqueville shows how the feeble flicker of whig liberty in France was snuffed out by the evolution of the Ancien Régime.
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© 1993 M. L. Burstein
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Burstein, M.L. (1993). Thomas Jefferson and the Revolution in France. In: Understanding Thomas Jefferson. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13115-0_8
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