![]() After they returned to France in February 1832, Tocqueville and Beaumont submitted their report, Du système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis et de son application en France, in 1833. The two also briefly visited Canada, spending a few days in the summer of 1831 in what was then Lower Canada (modern-day Quebec) and Upper Canada (modern-day Ontario). They arrived in New York City in May of that year and spent nine months traveling the United States, studying the prisons, and collecting information on American society, including its religious, political, and economic character. ![]() In his later letters Tocqueville indicates that he and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system. ![]() In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous seven hundred years. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually simply entitled Democracy in America. ![]() De La Démocratie en Amérique, published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840 is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. ![]()
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