laboulaye

Updated: June 6, 2025

Laboulaye was a man of like calibre and measurements, whom Waddington, when he was minister, called the true successor of Tocqueville. Like him he had saturated himself with American ideas, and like him he was persuaded that the revolutionary legacy of concentrated power was the chief obstacle to free institutions.

Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton - Lectures on the French Revolution

The view established by constitutional royalists, like Duvergier de Hauranne, and by men equidistant from royalist or republican exclusiveness, such as Tocqueville and Laboulaye, was very largely shared by intelligent democrats, more particularly by Lanfrey, and by Quinet in his two volumes on the genius of the Revolution.

Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton - Lectures on the French Revolution