André Jardin (1912 – 1996) was a French biographer and historian, best known for his studies of Alexis de Tocqueville and 19th century French history, translated into English as "Tocqueville: A Biography" in 1988 by Lydia Davis and Robert Hemenway—was acclaimed as the definitive account of the life and career of the author of "Democracy in America"/De La Démocratie en Amérique, is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville, published in how many volumes?
André Jardin André Jardin (1912 – 1996) was a French biographer and historian, best known for his studies of Alexis de Tocqueville and 19th century French history. His 1984 biography of Tocqueville, "Alexis de Tocqueville: 1805-1859"—translated into English as "Tocqueville: A Biography" in 1988 by Lydia Davis and Robert Hemenway—was acclaimed as the definitive account of the life and career of the author of "Democracy in America".
Henriette Guizot de Witt Henriette Guizot de Witt (1829 in Paris – 1908 in Paris), the daughter of the historian and politician François Guizot and the wife of Conrad de Witt, was a French writer who wrote under the name Mme de Witt, née Guizot; to support family finances she composed some one hundred novels and educational texts of moralized history, such as "Légendes et récits pour la jeunesse" (1876), "Scènes historiques" (five series, 1875-85), "Les chroniques de l'histoire de France jusqu'au XIVe siècle" (4 volumes 1882-85). She also translated Shakespeare and Charles Dickens into French.