Journal des Etats-Généraux
The Journal des Etats-Généraux (dt. Newspaper of the States General ) was a newspaper during the French Revolution , published by Mirabeau , the leading head of the representatives of the Third Estate. Their motto was Novus nascitur ordo ( A new order is born ). It was the first free newspaper in France and the publisher did not submit it to the royal censors before it was sold. It started on May 2, 1789.
After just a few issues, it was banned on May 7, as the day before a criticism of Necker's speech at the opening of the Estates General appeared. On May 10th they started again and called the paper Lettres du comte de Mirabeau à ses commettants ( Eng . Letters from Count Mirabeau to his clients ).
From July 26th it was published under the title Courrier de Provence . Mirabeau himself left the editorial team to his staff, including Étienne Clavière and Étienne Dumont . Even after his death on April 2, 1791, they continued to run the newspaper until September 30, 1791.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann in Ça ira , Knaur 1989, editor Thilo Lang
- ^ Justus Franz Wittkop: Count Mirabeau