During a two-month stay in Switzerland in the summer of 1836, Tocqueville made some brief notes on Machiavelli (OC XVI, 541–550), whose complete works he owned in a twelve-volume French translation published in the years 1823–1826 – in his library, he also had a three-volume Italian edition. The encounter with Machiavelli’s writings in Switzerland may have been brief, as Richter (2005) puts it, but it was lasting. One can not only agree with Kimpell (2009), who believes in finding solutions for Tocqueville’s problems in Machiavelli’s writings, but one can also speak of a Tocquevillian Machiavellism, as Mansfield and Winthrop (2014) do.