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Martignac’s moderate Cabinet had been isolated from the crown, but it might still have survived if it had held the support of a majority of the deputies. The Left, however, ignored the sincere constitutionalism of the Bordelais orator, and continually blamed him for yielding to the far Right. At the same time, the Ultras demanded his head for yielding to the “opinion”. His own support in the Center-Right was neither stable nor numerically large.
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Nettement, Histoire, VIII, 209. Lamartine, Restoration, IV, 362.
Nettement, Histoire, VIII, 212–13.
Daudet, Martignac, p. 298.
Viel-Castel, Histoire, XIX, 577.
Daudet, Martignac, p. 300.
Gazette de France, 2 August, 1829.
Drapeau Blanc, 22 July, 1829.
“His pamphlets made him one of the heroes of liberal opinion. His fame seemed to be great, especially among the masses. His entire ambition was to be a deputy”. Barante, Souvenirs, III, 455.
Courrier Francais, 2 August, 1829.
Constitutionnel, 29 July, 1829.
Z Martignac still employed this journal to defend his policies, although its readership was now very small.
Constitutionnel, 29 July, 1829.Ibid.
Nettement, Histoire, VIII, 301.
Montbel wrote to Villèle: What the journals are saying, of quarrels, of discord is false, but it is based on a knowledge of characters. La Bourdonnaye is ardent and loves vigorous measures, without hesitating too much ‘on the Possibilities. The prince [Polignac] has a great loyalty. Chabrol and the prince are actively preoccupied with the idea of you... The prince declares he would be happy to see you at the head of affairs ... We cannot exist with the license of the press, there is one of our most violent diseases“. Villèle, Mémoires, V, 378.
Daudet, Martignac, p. 301.
Ibid. ‘8 Ibid.
Nettement, Histoire, VIII, 323–24.
Le .Moniteur, 6, 9 August, 1829.
Viel-Castel, Histoire, XX, 52–55.
Vaulabelle, Histoire, VII, 186–88. An idea of the republican spirit that greeted Lafayetté s tour may be found in the description of a banquet in his honor, published in the Tribune des Départmens, 9 August, 1829, expressing delight in the “American” sentiments of the gathering.
Journal des Débats, 15 August, 1829.
Le Moniteur, 9 August, 1829.
Quotidienne, 10 August, 1829.
Drapeau Blanc, 10 August, 1829.
Guizot, Memors, I, 313; Weill, Parti républicain, p 21: Pouthas, Guizot, pp. 423–24.
Gazette de France, 9 August, 1829.
Lamartine, Restoration, IV, 364.
Journal des Débats, 10 August, 1829. “ Courrier Français, 10 August, 1829.
Constitutionnel, 10 August, 1829.
Ibid., 9 August, 1829.
A collection of these pamphlets may be found in the classification (Lc 49) in the Bibliothlque Nationale.
Frederic Ségu, Le Premier Figaro, 1826–1833 (Paris, 1932), p. 2; see supra, chapter ii.
Louis Véron, Mémoires d’un bourgeois de Paris (5 vols.: Paris, 1853), II, 382.
Ibid., p. 381.
Figaro, 9 August, 1829.
The fête du roi (King’s ‘official“ birthday) was the next major holiday.
Debelleyme had been Martignac’s popular and innovative Prefect of Police, who was now retired as a magistrate of the Paris Court of Commerce. Contrary to Figaro’s assumption, he was not replaced by Renneville, but by a notorious clericalist and Ultra from Poitiers, J.H. Mangin. See, John P. Stead, The Police of Paris (London: Staples, 1957), pp. 99–101.
The crimes of these two clerics are discussed in chapter y, supra.
Dom Miguel was the brother of Emperor Pedro of Brazil and Regent of Portugal for Pedro’s daughter, Maria da Gloria. In 1828, he usurped the throne and ruled despotically for five years. French liberals denounced the Bourbon’s recognition and toleration of this most reactionary regime.
Bohain, Véron, and Romieu were the editors who collaborated in creating this memorable issue. References to refuge in Holland relate to the anticipated suppression of the press. The King of the Netherlands, William, and his Minister, Van Maanen, had more reactionary press laws than did France; and editors who offended the government, especially those who advocated independence for Belgium, could receive up to ten years in jail. The Holland references are also satirical in recalling that French critics once fled to that country to escape the censure of the Sun King.
Figaro, 10 August, 1829.
Gazette des Tribunaux, 27 August, 1829. Bertin also published his own account of the trial, titled, Liherté de la presse, procès de M. Bertin (Paris, 1829), B.N. (Le 49 1145).
Gazette des Tribunaux, 29 August, 1829.
Guizot, Mémoirs, 1, 327.
Gazette des Tribunaux, 26, 28 December, 1829.
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Rader, D.L. (1973). The Press in the Crisis of August 8, 1829. In: The Journalists and the July Revolution in France. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7456-3_7
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