Tocqueville And Blanc: A Comparative Analysis

My two historians are Tocqueville and Blanc. They both describe the revolution in very different and interesting ways. Though they both has both believed that the french revolution was split up onto two parts. For Tocqueville, he firmly thought the first part was about liberty, which he found to be ‘beautiful’. That the citizens of France worked together for the right to liberty and to get rid of the Feudal regime or Accien regime. Take for example, a country priest a man that has an estate and who is not put down by the seigneurs felt compelled to offer and seek help out for what he called ‘the wretched’ or poor. Instead of taking the side that a man of his position should be on, he stand for the people that he cares and watch over. As said by Tocqueville, 1789 democrat was the
That the revolution of 1789 and the second revolution could embody different meanings. Tocqueville thoughts were mainly on the ‘Accien regime’ barely ever thinking about the Terror. Another thing, that Blanc and Tocqueville had on common was that both were put into a form of exile because of the revolution in France. Blanc was exiled physical from France while Tocqueville was in politically exiled.Now, Blanc also put the revolution in to two parts but had different thoughts on what they embodied. he thought that the first one was about ‘Individualism’ and the second one about ‘Fraternity’. Blanc’s family was products of the feudal regime persecuted by the first revolution of 1830, and his grandfather was guillotined during the Terror .I believe that this had effect shaping his beliefs on the french revolution. Because what I can understand Blanc got to grow up fairly normal.Though apparently Blanc, tried to ‘dissociate this hero Robespierre with the infamous guillotine during the Terror. I believe this is because Robespierre was the leader of the Jacobins. Blanc was a part of the jacobin