Extremely rare old newspaper of the French Revolution L'ami du roi of Mars 22, 1792

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L'Ami du Roi is a royalist newspaper created on June 1, 1790 by Father Thomas Marie Royou and Galart de Montjoie.

With the outbreak of the Revolution, the owners and editors of L'Année littéraire, a royalist opinion journal, decided to engage in the political fray. Appearing every six days, this review does not have the necessary reactivity to deal with current events. So they decided, around the middle of 1790, in concert with the printer Jean-Baptiste Crapart and the bookseller Pierre-César Briand, to create a daily newspaper entitled l'Ami du Roi, des Français, de l'Ordre, et especially of the Truth, by the followers of Fréron. The first issue appeared on June 1, 1790. The main writer was then Montjoie, the Abbé Royou still being only a collaborator.

However, on August 6, Royou left the newspaper and founded his own Ami du Roi, located at the corner of rue Saint-André and rue de l'Éperon, the first issue of which appeared on the following September 1. Shortly after, Montjoie in turn left the editorial staff of the newspaper[1] and founded his own sheet, also called l'Ami du Roi, the first issue of which also appeared on 1 September[2]. From this date, three sheets, each bearing the title: l'Ami du Roi therefore appeared concurrently.

The subscribers acclaiming the sheet of Royou, Crapart is forced to agree with Montjoie. Their two sheets merge, and Montjoie takes the direction of the new newspaper, on November 6, 1790. According to Eugène Hatin, Montjoie is distinguished by “a practiced pen; his style is correct, easy, always sustained in a suitable tone. He is, says Léonard Gallois, the Brissot of royalism, of which the Abbé Royou made himself the Marat. One could also say that the success of his newspaper was to that of Royou what the success of the French Patriot was to that of the Friend of the People. It was a success of esteem; the other was a success of passion[3]. In addition to benefiting from the financial support of the Court and the ministers until the flight of Louis XVI, Royou's paper is distinguished by the violence of its language and the radicalism of its positions. Thus, she calls on officers to resign from the army.

This violence and this radicalism, which made Royou's success with "aristocratic" opinion, also drew on his person all the violence of the attacks. After the Champ-de-Mars shooting, the research and reports committees ordered Royou's arrest on July 22, 1791. Not having found him at home, the National Guards put the seals on part of his papers, carrying away the rest, and arrest his sister, widow of Fréron, while the presses of his newspaper were broken by the anger of the insurgents.

The publication of his sheet is interrupted from July 23 to August 6, 1791, before being taken over by Jacques-Corentin Royou, who shows a virulence equal to his brother.

After the ratification of the Constitution of 1791, an amnesty is voted, and Abbé Royou resumes writing his newspaper. Faced with the radicalism of his attacks and his polemical positions, which are equaled only by those of Marat's Friend of the People, the Legislative Assembly decrees the indictment of Marat and Royou on May 3, 1792. If Royou escapes arrest, his diary disappears a few weeks later, his brother reluctant to pursue the company.

For its part, the Journal de Montjoie appeared without interruption until August 10, 1792, before disappearing with the fall of royalty[4]. After August 10, the Girondin Gorsas, editor of the Courrier des 83 départements, was awarded the presses of the Friend of the King.

The subscribers acclaiming the sheet of Royou, Crapart is forced to agree with Montjoie. Their two sheets merge, and Montjoie takes the direction of the new newspaper, on November 6, 1790. According to Eugène Hatin, Montjoie is distinguished by “a practiced pen; his style is correct, easy, always sustained in a suitable tone. He is, says Léonard Gallois, the Brissot of royalism, of which the Abbé Royou made himself the Marat. One could also say that the success of his newspaper was to that of Royou what the success of the French Patriot was to that of the Friend of the People. It was a success of esteem; the other was a success of passion[3]. In addition to benefiting from the financial support of the Court and the ministers until the flight of Louis XVI, Royou's paper is distinguished by