![]() ![]() Laurent Cerisé, writing in L’Européen in 1835, just after the first volume of Tocqueville’s masterpiece was published: Democracy in America, while not unbridled praise, has long been regarded by Americans as a prescient and penetrating account of our nation, one that suggests how we might serve as a model for the march of democracy across the world.īut then consider the following portrait of America and its people, from Dr. Which would be your second choice? France.” ] perhaps the most symbolically evocative and totemic emblem of our land-the Statue of Liberty-is a gift from the nation of France and a key piece of our national self-understanding hinges on a document penned by a Frenchman. ![]() The French, after all, were instrumental to the result of the American war for independence 1 sk the travelled inhabitant of any nation, In what country on earth would you rather live? Certainly in my own, where are all my friends, my relations and the earliest & sweetest affections and recollections of my life. As the revolutionary age transformed Europe and the New World, among the few prominent instances of global stability, or so it has frequently been asserted, was the special relationship between France and America. ![]()
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