Extremely rare old newspaper of the French Revolution L'ami du roi from December 15, 1791

Exceptional royalist newspaper, very rare in this condition, fascinating historical document on royalist opposition to the French Revolution.

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

With the outbreak of the Revolution, the owners and editors of the Année littéraire, a review of royalist opinion, decided to enter the political fray. Appearing every six days, this magazine does not have the necessary responsiveness 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, and especially of the Truth, by the followers of Fréron. The first issue appeared on June 1, 1790. The main editor was then Montjoie, Abbé Royou being still only a collaborator.

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

The subscribers favoring Royou's sheet, Crapart was forced to come to an agreement with Montjoie. Their two pages merged, and Montjoie took over the management 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 maintained in a suitable tone. He is, says Leonard Gallois, the Brissot of royalism, of which Abbé Royou became the Marat. We could also say that the success of his newspaper was to that of Royou what the success of Le Patriote français was to that of L'Ami du peuple. It was a success of esteem; the other was a success of passion[3]. » Besides benefiting from the financial support of the Court and ministers until the flight of Louis XVI, Roou's paper is distinguished by the violence of its language and the radicality of its positions. Thus, she calls on officers to resign from the army.

This violence and radicalism, which made Royou successful with “aristocratic” opinion, also attracted all the violence of the attacks to his person. After the Champ-de-Mars shooting, the research committees and reports ordered Royou's arrest on July 22, 1791. Not having found him at home, the national guards sealed part of his papers, taking away the rest, and arrested his sister, widow of Fréron, while the presses of his newspaper were broken by the anger of the insurgents.

The publication of his paper was interrupted from July 23 to August 6, 1791, before being taken up by Jacques-Corentin Royou, who showed virulence equal to his brother.

After the ratification of the Constitution of 1791, an amnesty was voted, and Abbot Royou resumed editing his newspaper. Faced with the radical nature of his attacks and his polemical positions, which are rivaled only by those of Marat's Friend of the People, the Legislative Assembly decreed the accusation of Marat and Royou on May 3, 1792. Although Royou escaped arrest, his newspaper disappeared a few weeks later, his brother reluctant to continue the business.

For its part, the Montjoie newspaper appeared without interruption until August 10, 1792, before disappearing with the fall of royalty[4]. After August 10, the Girondist Gorsas, editor of the Courrier des 83 Départements, was awarded the presses of the Ami du Roi.

The subscribers favoring Royou's sheet, Crapart was forced to come to an agreement with Montjoie. Their two pages merged, and Montjoie took over the management 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 maintained in a suitable tone. He is, says Leonard Gallois, the Brissot of royalism, of which Abbé Royou became the Marat. We could also say that the success of his newspaper was to that of Royou what the success of Le Patriote français was to that of L'Ami du peuple. It was a success of esteem; the other was a success of passion[3]. » Besides benefiting from the financial support of the Court and ministers until the flight of Louis XVI, Roou's paper is distinguished by the violence o