In 1830 he founded the National with Thiers and Armand Carrel, and signed the journalists' protest against the Ordonnances de juillet, but he refused to accept his share of the spoil after his party had won.
So say the third class of historians who regard all historical persons, from monarchs to journalists, as the expression of their age.
At the revolution of 1830 he signed the protestation of the journalists on the 28th of July 1830.
By this time he had a very large business as advocate, and was engaged on behalf of journalists in many press prosecutions.
But no great writer and no great administrator came from Narbonensis; itinerant lecturers and journalists alone were produced in plenty, and at times minor poets.
