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of being the organ of

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s and Republicans. Its main editors were

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, and the singer Béranger,Alphonse de Lamartine, ''Histoire de la Restauration'', Paris, Lecou, Furnes & Pannierre, 1853, pp. 494-495
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Évariste Dumoulin,

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, Pierre-François Tissot.

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''La Minerve''
online in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF Bourbon Restoration Newspapers established in 1818 Defunct newspapers published in France 1818 establishments in France {{france-newspaper-stub