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Excerpt from De Tocqueville's l'Ancien R gime: Edited, With Introduction And Notes
With the Revolution of 1830 Tocqueville was not in sympathy, but he 'bowed before the inevitable and accepted office from Louis Philippe with as good a grace as he could muster. Every day, ' he wrote to a friend some few years afterwards, 'i deeply deplore the events of July you believe that we ought from this instant to endeavour at any risk to bring about the restoration by any honest means I do not think so. At present I see no chance of a restoration except by foreign aid. I shall never ask a favour from this government I shall oppose its encroachments all my life, but I cannot wish to upset it till I am convinced that I have found some good and permanent substitute.'
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