Louis François Auguste Cauchois-Lemaire (August 28, 1789 – August 9, 1861) was a French

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Towards the end of the First Empire, he was proprietor of the ''Journal de la littérature et des arts'', which he transformed at the Restoration into a political journal of Liberal tendencies, the ''Nain jaune'', in which

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himself had little satirical articles, secretly inserted. After the return from

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, the ''Nain jaune'' became

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and fell into discredit. Eventually, it was suppressed at the second Restoration. Cauchois-Lemaire then threw himself impetuously into the Liberal agitation, and had to take refuge in

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in 1816, and in the following year at the Hague, whence he was expelled for publishing an ''Appel à l'opinion publique et aux Etats-Généraux en faveur des patriotes français''. Returning to France in 1819, he resumed the struggle against the ultra-royalist party with such temerity that he was condemned to one year's imprisonment in 1821, and fifteen months imprisonment in 1827. After the

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, he refused a pension of 6000 francs offered to him by King Louis Philippe, on the ground that he wished to retain his independence even in his relations with a government which he had helped to establish. He made a bitter attack upon the Perier ministry in his journal ''Bon sens'', and in 1836, was one of the founders of a new opposition journal, the ''Siècle''. He soon, however, abandoned journalism for history and, having no private means, in 1840, accepted the post of head of a department in the Royal Archives. Of a ''Histoire de la Révolution de Juillet'', which he then undertook, he published only the first volume (1842), which contains a historical summary of the Restoration and a preliminary sketch of the democratic movement.

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