Georges Thiébaud was a French journalist, 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...

 and nationalist. He and comte Dillon

Arthur Dillon (1834-1922)

Arthur Dillon was a French cavalry officer and journalist, and friend of général Boulanger. He was the grandson of General Arthur Dillon , descended from a family of exile Irish Jacobites....

 launched an American-style press campaign in favour of général Boulanger.

After his Boulangist engagement, he joined the antidreyfusard camp. Hostile to Protestantism, he founded an anti-Protestant league. He was accused of complicity in the coup d'état

Coup d'état

A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...

 averted by Paul Déroulède

Paul Déroulède

- Early life :Déroulède was born in Paris. He was published first as a poet in the magazine Revue nationale, with the pseudonym "Jean Rebel". In 1869 he produced, at the Théâtre Français, a one-act drama in verse named Juan Strenner.- Military career :...

in 1899.