What is Alexis de Tocqueville?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Alexis de Tocqueville | image = Alexis de tocqueville.jpg | caption = 1850 portrait by [[Théodore Chassériau]] | office = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (France)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] | primeminister = [[Odilon Barrot]] | term_start = 2 June 1849 | term_end = 30 October 1849 | predecessor = [[Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys]] | successor = [[Alphonse de Rayneval]] | office1 = [[National Assembly (France)|Member of the National Assembly]]<br>for [[Manche]] | term_start1 = 25 April 1848 | term_end1 = 3 December 1851 | predecessor1 = [[Léonor-Joseph Havin]] | successor1 = [[Hervé de Kergorlay]] | constituency1 = [[Sainte-Mère-Église]] | office2 = [[Chamber of Deputies (France)|Member of the Chamber of Deputies]]<br>for [[Manche]] | term_start2 = 7 March 1839 | term_end2 = 23 April 1848 | predecessor2 = [[Jules Polydore Le Marois]] | successor2 = [[Gabriel-Joseph Laumondais]] | constituency2 = [[Valognes]] | birth_name = Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1805|7|29}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], [[First French Empire|French Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1859|4|16|1805|7|29}} | death_place = [[Cannes]], [[Second French Empire|French Empire]] | death_cause = [[Tuberculosis]] | party = [[Movement Party (France)|Movement Party]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Boucaud-Victoire|first1=Kévin|title=La guerre des gauches|date=2017|publisher=Editions du Cerf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Véricour|first1=Louis Raymond|title=Modern French Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/modernfrenchlite00vruoft|date=1848|publisher=Gould, Kendall and Lincoln|page=[https://archive.org/details/modernfrenchlite00vruoft/page/104 104]}}</ref><br>(1839–1848)<br>[[Party of Order]]<br>(1848–1851) | spouse = {{marriage|Mary Mottley|1835|1859|