Tocqueville
/ˈtəʊkvɪl/ name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A commune of Eure department, Normandy, France.
- 2 A commune of Manche department, Normandy, France.
- 3 A surname from French — famously held by:; François-Hippolyte Clérel de Tocqueville (1797–1877), senator of the French Third Republic
- 4 A surname from French — famously held by:; Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French diplomat, political scientist, historian, and author of De la Démocratie en Amérique (two volumes, 1835–1840) and L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856)
Etymology
Borrowed from French Tocqueville.