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The French have placed memorials to greatness throughout the city of Paris. From the countless names of streets to the bullet-pocked walls inscribed with the names of students who fell before Nazi firing squads, all talents and spirits have been honored. In the temple of the Panthéon, such monuments are dedicated especially to those whose courage rose from the mind and whose weapon was the pen. Beneath the great dome stands a large and prominent sculptured group — suitably in the Romantic style and labeled, “The Journalists of the Restoration”.
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Jean Lucas-Dubreton, Le Comte d’Artois, Charles X (Paris, 1927), p. 153. (Hereafter cited as Lucas-Dubreton, Charles X.) The King’s obsession for absolutism was shown in 1828 when Dom Miguel usurped the throne of Portugal and abolished civil liberties. Properly horrified by the tyrant’s brutality, Charles X nevertheless remarked to his ministers: “This Dom Miguel is a wretch, but you must appreciate how adroitly he did them out of their constitution!” Quoted from Ernest Daudet, Le ministere de M. de Martignac (Paris, 1875), p. 220. ( Hereafter cited as Daudet, Martignac. )
Jean Baptiste Duvergier, ed., Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, régelements, et avis du conseil d’état (30 vols., 1st ser.; Paris, 1824–1830), Law of 20 April, 1824, XXV, 150–54. (Hereafter cited as Duvergier, Collection des lois.) This law was inoperable, not only for the difficulty of proving motive, but also because title I, article 4, held the proviso that, at the moment of the offense, the sacred vessels must contain the blessed host and that the crime must be publicly witnessed!
Social and economic data may found in Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny, The Bourbon Restoration (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pres, 1966), pp. 201–67. (Hereafter cited as Bertier de Sauvigny, Restoration.) Georges Bourgin and Hubert Bourgin, Les patrons, les ouvriers, et l’état sous la Restauration, ‘documents inédits (Paris, 1941); David H. Pinkney, “A New Look at the Revolution of 1830”, Review of Politics, XXIII (South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1961), 490–501. See also Pinkney, The French Revolution of 1830 ( Princeton University Press, 1972 ), Ch. II.
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Rader, D.L. (1973). Introduction. In: The Journalists and the July Revolution in France. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7456-3_1
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