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The next morning, July 26, the Moniteur appeared a bit later than usual. It contained the final decrees of the last King of France and Navarre. The “Report to the King”, signed by the ministers, served as a preface. The edicts called for the dissolution of the new Chamber, which was not yet in session; the suppression of the freedom of the periodical press; a radical alteration of the electoral law in behalf of rural landowners; and the appointment of several Ultras to secondary positions and prefectures in the administration.
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Le Moniteur,26 July, 1830. The report, used later as trial evidence, also appears in Procès des ministres,II, 592–97. Bourmont was in Africa with the army, thus avoiding responsibility for the coup.
Alphonse Perrot, Rélation historique des journées mémorables des 27, 28, 29, Juillet, 1830 (Paris, 1830), pp. 36–40. Hereafter cited as Perrot, Rélation.) Also see, François Rossignol and Jehan Pharaon, Histoire de la révolution de 1830 et des nouvelles barricades (Paris, 1830), pp. 65–66. (Hereafter cited as Rossignol, Histoire
David Turnbull, The French Revolution of 1830 (London, 1830), p. 51. Hereafter cited as Turnbull, Revolution
Lamartine, Restoration,IV, 423. According to Professor Pinkney, printers were the only skilled group directly injured by the edicts but they were active in propaganda among other workers in crafts. See David H. Pinkney, “The Crowd in the French Revolution of 1830”, American Historical Review,LXX, No. 1 October 1964), 1–17, hereafter cited as Pinkney, Crowd See also Pinkney, The French Revolution of 1830 (Princeton, 1972), 259–261.
Laffitte. Mémoires, pp. 146–49; see also, Vincent W. Beach, “The Fall of Charles X”. University of Colorado Studies (November, 1961 ), p. 33.
Pinkney’s studies of records of those compensated for losses in combat in 1830 reveal a very high representation among skilled craftsmen such as joiners and cabinetmakers: Neither a very depressed nor an oppressed class, they nevertheless felt threatened and alienated by the Bourbons: (Pinkney, Crowd,p. 4). Pinkney, French Revolution of 1830,269–271. discounts military claims of students as leaders and stresses the role of ex-soldiers. George Rudé, The Crowd in History (New York, 1964), p. 165 also testifies to this artisan preponderance.
Laffitte, Mémoires,pp. 150–56; see also, Procès des ministres,I, 392–93; II, 107–8. Various testimonies at Polignac’s trial confirmed his courtesy, as well as the breakdown in the chain of command from Saint-Cloud, to the Tuileries, to the military itself.
Globe,Special, 4 A.M., July 30, 1830. The Globe’s factual report of the deputies’ sessions and the Municipal Commission were written to show the contrast between the spirit of the revolutionaries and the timidity of the deputies. Globists showed more sympathy for the radicals than other Orleanist papers. See also, Laffitte, Mémoires,p. 165.
Laffitte, Mémoires,p. 135. Laffitte had thus referred to the General in a conversation with Royer-Collard early in July. When the banker repeated the phrase to Lafayette, the old soldier laughingly agreed that it was an apt characterization.
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Rader, D.L. (1973). The Journalists in the Trois Glorieuses . In: The Journalists and the July Revolution in France. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0981-7_15
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