La Minerve, later La Minerve française, was a daily French newspaper first published on 1 April 1818. Liberal and in favour of the Charte constitutionnelle, it was suspected under the Bourbon Restoration

Bourbon Restoration

The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon  – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...

 of being the organ of Bonapartist

Bonapartist

In French political history, Bonapartism has two meanings. In a strict sense, this term refers to people who aimed to restore the French Empire under the House of Bonaparte, the Corsican family of Napoleon Bonaparte and his nephew Louis...

s and Republicans. Its main editors were Benjamin Constant

Benjamin Constant

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was a Swiss-born French nobleman, thinker, writer and politician.-Biography:...

, Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès

Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès

Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès , French politician, fought on the barricades during the revolution of July....

, Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès

Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès

Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès , French politician, fought on the barricades during the revolution of July....

, Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, Étienne Aignan

Étienne Aignan

Étienne Aignan was a French translator, political writer, librettist and playwright born in Beaugency, Loiret.In 1814 he was made a member of the Académie française, replacing Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in Seat 27....

, and the singer Béranger

Pierre-Jean de Béranger

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, Évariste Dumoulin, Antoine Jay

Antoine Jay

Antoine Jay was a French writer, journalist, historian and politician.-Life:At first an Oratorian at Niort, he studied law at Toulouse and became a lawyer, then briefly administrator of the district of Libourne...

, Pierre Louis de Lacretelle

Pierre Louis de Lacretelle

Pierre Louis de Lacretelle was a French lawyer, politician and writer.He was born in Metz, the elder brother of Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle....

, Pierre-François Tissot.

External links

• La Minerve online in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF
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