Auguste Sautelet

Auguste Sautelet , born with Lancié on January 27th, 1800, died in Paris on May 13rd, 1830, lawyer then bookseller printer, is a French editor. In addition to the newspaper the Producer and the daily newspapers the Earth , then the National of which he is manager, he publishes romantic writers. Its original editions are required today.

Biography

Former student of Theodore Jouffroy with the college Bourbon (today Condorcet), then with, the disciple Faculty of Arts of Victor Cousin of which he will become the editor, he is also student in right and takes part in the foundation of the Charbonnerie (1821). He will belong to the same Sale as Augustin Thierry, Pierre Leroux, Theodore Jouffroy and Alexandre Bertrand. He attends the romantic and liberal living rooms (the Attic of Etienne Jean Delécluze) with Albert Stapfer, Ampère wire, Stendhal, Courier, Viollet the Duke, Thiers, Armand Carrel, Augustin Thierry.

He becomes lawyer then bookseller editor (1825). Only or sometimes associated, it publishes a little more than one hundred of works of romantic and liberal writers of which he was often the friend: Brillat-Savarin, Paul-Louis Courier, Mérimée, Goethe, Stendhal, Holy-Beuve, Thiers, Delécluze, etc… It makes known Walter Scott and Fenimore Cooper in France. The family of Simon Saint asks him to publish for the first time in extenso the Memories of their ancestor while the nephew of the memorialist creates the Saint-simonisme to which Sautelet will adhere.

It makes work of precursor: thus it publishes complete works of Voltaire (including his correspondence) but in three volumes only: the characters employed are so small that the typographers miss becoming blind: volumes are sold besides with a magnifying glass! In partnership with the editor Mound, it publishes in 1828 Faust de Goethe, translated by A. Stapfer, with 17 lithographies of Delacroix, the first never delivers illustrated by a painter. To fight on its own ground against the Belgian counterfeit, it joins Bossange, Firmin-Didot, Galignani, Levrault, Treuttel and Wurtz to found in Brussels French and Foreign the Parisienne bookstore.

He is the editor of the newspaper of romantic the the Earth (1828) which will become that of the Simoniens Saint, but especially Adolphe Thiers founds with him, François-Auguste Mignet and Armand Carrel, the newspaper the National (1830). The backers are Jacques Laffitte, Talleyrand, the Duke of Dalberg and Sautelet. Its bookstore shelters the buildings of the newspaper and he is the responsible manager. The writers are Thiers, Mignet and Armand Carrel.

The first number appears on January 1st, 1830. The National defends the Charte of 1814: it is restricted to recall to the government which the will of the people is sovereign and which the institutions of a country are not immutable. But Thiers passes to the offensive. One of its leading articles is interpreted by the government of Charles X like a threat against the governmental system and the people who incarnate it, i.e. the King and the ministers. The capacity then decides to continue Auguste Sautelet into correctional since he is the responsible manager, and the author of the article Adolphe Thiers. They each one are condemned to 1000 Francs of fine (that Thiers will pay thanks to a subscription near the readers of the newspaper) and singularly Auguste Sautelet with a three months sorrow of prison.

Is this judgment, a spite in love (it was enthusiast of invaluable), financial worries (to publish the first romantic ones was not more lucrative)? Auguste Sautelet draws a ball in the head on May 13rd, 1830 in the small hour, in his apartment street of Richelieu. Its burial with the Montmartre Cemetery gathers around his/her friends a many crowd.

Thiers leaves reinforced this crisis: he threatens the mode. If monarchy does not become constitutional, it will be the republic, writes it with half mot. But this time, the capacity will be kept to continue it. Two months later, Charles X publishes the Ordonnances of July suspending freedom of the press. But the journalists brought together by Thiers with the seat of the National sign the Protest of 1830 then, premise of the Révolution of July.

Auguste Sautelet had joined the Paulin bookseller who will be one of the four founders of the review the Illustration.

Literary sources

Delécluze : Memories sixty years
Stendhal: Memories of egotism
Mérimée: Correspondence
Jean-Jacques Amp: Correspondence '' crhst/CNRS ''
Chateaubriant: Mémoires of In addition to-Falls
Armand Carrel: a suicide in “the Review of Paris” June 1830
Prince de Joinville: Old memories '' Gallica BNF p.11 ''
Balzac: Letters with Holy Mrs Hanska
Beuve: Literary Critical and portraits
General Fayette: Correspondence '' Université Cornell New York

Documentary sources

Gunnel Dory: French Sutton Sharpe and his/her friends . ED Champion Honore 1925
Jean Jacques Goblot: Earth 1824-1830 . ED Champion Honore 1993
Auguste Sautelet: Correspondence

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