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An American in Paris: Professor Leila Nadya Sadat

Alexis de Tocqueville Distinguished Fulbright Chair, University of Cergy-Pontoise

Alexis de Tocqueville

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville set sail for America with his friend and traveling companion Gustave de Beaumont. The voyage by sea from Le Havre in France to Newport, Rhode Island took 37 days, and he and Beaumont would spend the next nine months traveling...

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