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what fucking millennium is it

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hey fanny trollope for your information i also do this

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the guy that sculpted this tocqueville bust COOKED. look at him. i want to give him a hug and also a tb vaccine :)

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imo the increasing popularity of rpf is a sign of the tumblr population aging. every day i log in and have to look at ugly men from 20-2000 years ago and i'm like yeah, well, this is just culture. it's like reading the new yorker. do i care about it? no. but it does make me feel cosmopolitan. do you think tumblrinas in 2012 would have cared about the franklin expedition. no. they had the bishounen from free exclamation mark. they had bbc sherlock

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aint it just like the night to play tricks when youre trying to be so quiet

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It’s catch-22 summer and we’re all Yossarian

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alexis de tocqueville: okay guys. if we all vote together we might just be able to amend the constitution and save the republic. now who’s with me!!

louis napoleon:

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sometimes when i’m angry i chew on this picture of john adams

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As a sorta follow-up to that post where I made a collection of text descriptions of Tocqueville's appearance, I also wanted to make a post featuring a collection of portraits of him from youngest to oldest.

Young Tocqueville (age 16) by an unknown artist, 1821.

Sketch portrait (age 24) by Camille Blaise, 1829.

Painted portrait (age 35) by Dulac, 1840.

Sketch portrait (age 39) by Théodore Chassériau, 1844.

Lithograph (age 43) by Leon Noël, 1848.

Painted portrait (age 44-45) by Théodore Chassériau, 1850.

For fun, here's a few caricature illustrations done of him in his life:

By Honoré Daumier (1848)

Caricature featured in l'Almanach pour rire, 1850 (1850).

By Cham (A.K.A Amédée de Noé); featured in Assemblée nationale comique (1850).

I ended up really enjoying putting this together, so I think I'll do one for Gustave de Beaumont tomorrow. Unfortunately it won't be that detailed, since there's just not enough material featuring him :(

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omgg adding a couple of my favorites

the first is from Brogan’s Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life, second and third are Mary Charlotte Mair Simpson (Senior’s daughter) in the preface to Nassau Senior’s Correspondence and Conversations:

Putting together a collection of various physical descriptions of Tocqueville because a number of his friends and detractors were Not Normal about him and neither am I.

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call him bubonic the way he plagues me

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Always fun spotting a certain sneaky little Frenchman always getting casually grouped among authors of foundational "canon" texts and key figures in the emergence of US democratic self-understanding because it's always like

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history nerds will fr be like "my blorbo!!" and its the 3rd king of england

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