In 1849 he served as the President of the National Assembly and as Foreign Minister.
In 1849 he served as the President of the National Assembly and as Foreign Minister. He believed that public opinion tended toward tyranny, which may have been confirmed by Napoleon III's 1851 coup, after which he retired to his estate to write the first volume of The Old Regime and the Revolution. With Gustave de Beaumont, he made an 1831 tour of the United States to study its penal system that produced a work of political theory and commentary that developed the importance of the principle of "self-interest rightly understood." FTP name this author of Democracy in America.
In 1849 he served as the President of the National Assembly and as Foreign Minister.
Alexis de {Tocqueville}