Constitutionnel, Le. After three changes of title in six months (1815), this newspaper was a flag-bearer of Liberalism during the Restoration and the July Monarchy, but championed Napoleon III during the Second Republic and Second Empire. In the 1830s it supported the governments of Thiers, who was long one of its leading journalists and, indeed, a shareholder. Dr Véron relaunched the daily in 1844: the serial novel, Le Juif errant, by Sue, helped boost circulation. Sainte-Beuve published his literary criticism in Le Constitutionnel before moving to Le Moniteur. It declined rapidly in the 1870s.
[Michael Palmer]
