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261 - [CARICATURE ALBUM – Le NATIONAL 1830] An album of caricature…
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[CARICATURE ALBUM – Le NATIONAL 1830] An album of caricatures and pencil drawings relating to the history of *Le National* 1830. Probably mid-19th century. Oblong quarto, 28 drawings (including 25 on *Le National*), 26 mounted on sheets of soft blue cardboard, the last two loose and interleaved. Two drawings are stained. There appear to be two different styles of drawing: one rather ‘school-like’, the other freer and more confident. ½ black morocco binding of the period, split clamps. *Le National* was a French political and literary daily newspaper founded in January 1830 by Adolphe Thiers, Armand Carrel and François-Auguste Mignet to oppose the Second Restoration; the bookseller and publisher Auguste Sautelet was its first manager. After several changes of ownership and numerous scandals, the newspaper ceased publication in 1924. The new newspaper benefited from the financial support of the banker Jacques Laffitte and the patronage of Talleyrand and the Duke of Dalberg. The title refers to the motto of 1791: ‘The Nation, the Law, the King’. The newspaper campaigned for the establishment of a parliamentary system in the form of a constitutional monarchy. In fact, *Le National* defended the Charter of 1814. One of Thiers’ editorials was interpreted by the government of Charles X as a threat to the system of government, the king and his ministers. The authorities therefore decided to prosecute Sautelet in the criminal courts, as he was the managing editor, and Thiers, the author of the article. Both were convicted. When Charles X promulgated the July Ordinances suspending freedom of the press, it was at the headquarters of *Le National* that journalists gathered to sign the 1830 protest, the precursor to the Revolution of 1830, known as the Three Glorious Days. In 1836, *Le National* passed into the hands of Messrs Thomas, Trélat, Bastide and Duclerc, who turned it into the mouthpiece of republican opinion. In 1846, Armand Marrast became editor-in-chief. *Le National* continued to serve as a platform and published Armand Marrast’s appeal calling on Parisians to demonstrate on 22 February 1848, hundreds of students gathered at the Place du Panthéon, then made their way to the Madeleine, where they joined the workers. The Revolution of 1848 was underway. Subsequently, *Le National* became the mouthpiece of the moderate republican majority that had emerged from the 1848 general election and went on to form the Constituent Assembly of the Second Republic. The moderate republican MPs were referred to as members of the *Parti du National* in reference to their newspaper. During the presidential election of December 1848, *Le National* defended the republican constitution and supported General Cavaignac’s presidential candidacy. Banned following the coup d’état of 2 December 1851, it ceased publication on 31 December of that same year.
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