The National

the National is a daily newspaper founded in 1830 by Adolphe Thiers, Armand Carrel, François-Auguste Mignet and the bookseller editor Auguste Sautelet who will be the first manager, to fight the Second Restoration.

The new newspaper, whose first number appears the January 3rd 1830, profits from the financial support of the banker Jacques Laffitte and the patronage of Talleyrand and the duke of Broglie. It was claimed that the duke of Orleans gave its political guarantee, but it seems not very probable that he directly compromised himself: nothing attests it in any case.

The title returns to the currency of 1789: “the Nation, the Law, the King”, the order of the factors not having naturally anything innocent. The newspaper militates for the establishment of a parliamentary mode in the form of a constitutional monarchy and disputes the interpretation given by Charles X of the Charte of 1814 by striking formulas of which several remained famous:

“In representative monarchy, the majority must prevail against a ministry. ”

“the royalty chooses the ministers, but the majority of the Room the shift. ”

“the king reigns and does not control. ”

It is with the seat of the National that will meet the journalists to sign the protest of 1830 against the Ordonnances of July suspending freedom of the press, premise of the Revolution of 1830, known as of the Glorious Three

The National will continue to be used as platform and will publish the call of Armand Marrast inviting the Parisian ones to express on February 22nd, 1848, following prohibition by the Prefect of Paris of a public meeting, and hundreds of students gather place of the the Pantheon, then go to the Madeleine where they mix with the workmen. The Révolution of 1848 is moving.

Thereafter, the National will become the press agency of the moderate Republican majority (“middle-class Republicans”) resulting from the ballot boxes to legislative of 1848 and which formed Constituent Second Republic. The new government was directed by the general Louis-Eugene Cavaignac. The moderate republican parliamentarians were qualified members of the Parti the National in reference to their newspaper.

Later, the National will become socialist.

Interdict after the coup d'etat of the 2 December 1851, it disappears the 31 December of this same year.

References

Faces of the Press - presentation of the newspapers of the origins at our days; Louis Guéry, with the assistance of the Museum of the press; CFPJ editions, Paris, 1997.

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