Editing Alexis de Tocqueville (section)

== Early life ==
Tocqueville came from an old aristocratic [[Normans|Norman]] family, the great-grandson of the statesman [[Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes|Malesherbes]], who was guillotined in 1793. He was the third son of Hervé Louis François Jean Bonaventure Clérel, Count of Tocqueville, an officer of the [[Constitutional Guard]] of King [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]], and Louise Madeleine Le Peletier de Rosanbo who, themselves, might have faced the [[guillotine]] but for the [[fall of Maximilien Robespierre|fall in 1794 of Maximilien Robespierre]].<ref name="KahanThinkers">{{cite book|last1=Kahan|first1=Alan S.|editor1-last=Meadowcroft|editor1-first=John|title=Major conservative and libertarian thinkers|publisher=Bloomsbury|date=2013|chapter=Alexis de Tocqueville|volume=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZi9FlQLoM4C|access-date=25 May 2017|isbn=9781441176998}}</ref> Under the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]], Tocqueville's father became a noble [[Peerage|peer]] and [[Prefect (France)|prefect]].<ref name="KahanThinkers" /> Tocqueville attended the [[Lycée Fabert]] in [[Metz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lycee-fabert.com/histoire/index.html|title=Le lycée Fabert: 1000 ans d'histoire|language=fr|website=Lycée Fabert|access-date=18 September 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100708125530/http://www.lycee-fabert.com/histoire/index.html|archive-date=8 July 2010}}</ref>