Alexis de Tocqueville was born on July 29, 1805, in Paris. His father was a
             government official in various parts of France. His great-grandfather was a liberal
             aristocrat who was killed in the French Revolution. And his mother was a devoted
             Roman Catholic. Abbe Lesueur was Tocqueville's tutor, when his father passed away.
             Tocquevile went to the College Royal in Metz to study philosophy at the age of
             six-teen. During this time Tocqueville started to have fears about the role of the
             aristocracy in French government and he suffered a deep religious crisis that would
             affect him for the rest of his life.
             When he was finished at The College Royal at age eight-teen, Tocqueville
             moved back to Paris and he studied law. He then started a career as a lawyer, that is,
             as a salaried official of the royal court system. Tocqueville's father's career had been
             steadily moving forward until, in 1826, he became prefect of Versailles (the most
             influential prefecture in France). In 1827 was made a peer by Charles X. Tocqueville
             received a position as apprentice magistrate at the Versailles court of law, at the same
             time. During this period Tocqueville began to have more and more liberal
             sympathies as a result of his belief that the decline of the aristocracy was predictable.
             The first part of Democracy in America was published, in 1835. The book was
             extremely well-known throughout Europe. In the same year Tocqueville got married
             to Mary Motley, an Englishwoman. The marriage was a disgrace to Tocqueville's
             family because they though of Mary Motley to be of lesser birth. Tocqueville's
             mother died in 1836. After his mother died, Tocqueville went back to politics. He ran
             for the Chamber of Deputies in 1837, but lost. He lost because of his noble
             background. In 1838, he was named to the Legion of Honor for Democracy in
             America. In the year 1839 he was elected to the Chamber....