History

It was set up in 1790 by M. de Coutouly. It ceased publication in the face of events in 1792, before returning to print in July 1774 under the title Le Tableau de Paris, returning to its original title in 1817.

In 1817, Joseph-François Michaud became its chief editor, holding the post until his death in 1839.
In February 1847, it merged with La France and L'Écho français to create L'Union monarchique (renamed L'Union in 1848). Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie

Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie

Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie was a French writer and publicist, and a staunch anti-Gallican monarchist.-Life:...

 took over its editorship and turned it into an Ultra-Royalist

Ultra-royalist

Ultra-Royalists or simply Ultras were a reactionary faction which sat in the French parliament from 1815 to 1830 under the Bourbon Restoration...

 publication. In it Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic.-Career:...

 published his letter Opinion du citoyen Lamartine sur le Communisme. Also, on 27 October 1873, it published the open letter to Pierre Charles Chesnelong

Pierre Charles Chesnelong

Pierre Charles Chesnelong was a French politician, born at Orthez in the départment of the Basses-Pyrénées.-In the Second Empire:...

 by which the Comte de Chambord reiterated his attachment to the royalist white flag and refused all compromise.

Contributors

• Balzac
  Honoré de Balzac
  Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
  
   published in L'Union monarchique, from 7 April to 3 May 1847, his incompleted novel Le Député d'Arcis. He also published his second communiqué (the first she saw) to his future wife, Eveline Hańska, in La Quotidienne.
• Joseph-Alphonse Esménard
  Joseph-Alphonse Esménard
  Joseph-Alphonse Esménard was a French poet and the brother of the journalist Jean-Baptiste Esménard.-Life:...
  
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• Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau, entrusted from 1840 with a chronicle of diplomatic affairs. In 1846 he published in the paper a 'roman-feuilleton', Les Aventures de Jean de La Tour-Miracle then Nicolas Belavoir,.
• Charles Nodier
  Charles Nodier
  Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier , was a French author who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, vampire tales, and the importance of dreams as part of literary creation, and whose career as a librarian is often underestimated by literary...
  
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• Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie
  Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie
  Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie was a French writer and publicist, and a staunch anti-Gallican monarchist.-Life:...
  
   (1817–1830),
• Jean Joseph François Poujoulat
  Jean Joseph François Poujoulat
  Jean Joseph François Poujoulat , was a French historian and journalist.Poujoulat was co-author with Joseph François Michaud of the Bibliothèque des Croisades, and traveled with him through European and Asiatic Turkey in the study of the scenes of the Crusades...
  
  
• Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue
  Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue
  Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue was a French historian and biographer.He was born in Marseille, France. At the age of twenty he went to Paris to study law, but soon switched to journalism...
  
  (1801–1872), historian and biographer