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Footnotes
The quarto edition is clearly the author's offprint, the octavo aimed at a general audience. As the OC notes, "le discours prononcé est le result d'un compromis entre Tocqueville et ses academiciens", and there are a number of textual differences between the two editions. The prize was awarded "aux français pauvres ayant fait dans les deux années précédentes les actions les plus vertueuses". Among them was Madeleine Blanchet; Tocqueville "told the Blanchet story thrillingly. The whole speech deserves a place of honour among his minor works; it is one of his few encounters with the actualities of life for the French poor" (Brogan, p. 408). From the Tocqueville library.



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