Definition of "Tocqueville"

Tocqueville

/ˈtəʊkvɪl/

proper noun
1. A commune of the Eure department, Normandy, France.
2. A commune of the Manche department, Normandy, France.
3. (fully de Tocqueville) A surname from French — famously held by:
  1. François-Hippolyte Clérel de Tocqueville (1797–1877), senator of the French Third Republic
  2. 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)