September laws
The September Acts in France were enacted under the Ministry of Broglie - Thiers and Guizot to restrict the press on September 9, 1835 , after Joseph Fieschi committed an assassination attempt on Louis-Philippe I on July 28, 1835 during a parade celebrating the anniversaries of the July Revolution . had committed. The opposition press was accused of having prepared the climate for the attack. The laws reintroduced censorship and drastically increased the penalties for all press offenses. The commitment to the republic was banned.
The September Acts provided much material for literary discussion and for passionate and biting remarks in the Chamber hearings . On March 7, 1848, they were overridden by Adolphe Crémieux .
literature
- September laws . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 15 . Altenburg 1862, p. 856 ( zeno.org ).