ABSTRACT
Although he was widely praised and respected by his contemporaries as one of the most perceptive observers of his time, Alexis de Tocqueville was almost completely forgotten in France until after the Second World War, despite some references to his work by Durkheim. However, his prestige was never eclipsed in the United States, where his Democracy in America was widely thought to be one of the most pertinent studies ever to have been written on American society.
