Ramba uchiverenga ndima ino - Tocqueville aiita zvematongerwo enyika muFrance, kutanga pasi peJuly Monarchy (1830<unk>1848) uyezve panguva yeSecond Republic (1849<unk>1851) iyo yakatevera February 1848 Revolution
. Akasiya zvematongerwe enyika mushure mokunge Louis Napoléon Bonaparte aputsa 2 December 1851 uye akazotanga kushanda pa "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Tocqueville akataura kuti kukosha kweRevolution yeFrance kwaiva kupfuurira kwegadziriro yokuvandudza nokudzora hurumende yeFrance iyo yakanga yatanga pasi paMambo Louis XIV. Kukundikana kweRevolution kwakabva mukusava noruzivo kwavamiriri avo vakanga vakazvipira zvikuru kuzvinangwa zvisinganzwisisiki zveEnlightenment.