Editing July Revolution (section)

=== Monday, 26 July 1830 ===
[[File:Lar7 cogniet 001z.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|''[[Scenes of July 1830]]'', a painting by [[Léon Cogniet]] alluding to the July revolution of 1830]]

It was a hot, dry summer, pushing those who could afford it to leave Paris for the country. Most businessmen could not, and so were among the first to learn of the Saint-Cloud "Ordinances", which banned them from running as candidates for the Chamber of Deputies. Such membership was indispensable to those who sought the ultimate in social prestige. In protest, members of the ''Bourse'' refused to lend money, and business owners shuttered their factories. Workers were unceremoniously turned out into the street to fend for themselves. Unemployment, which had been growing through early summer, spiked. "Large numbers of... workers therefore had nothing to do but protest."<ref name="Mansel238">{{harvnb|Mansel|2001|p=238}}</ref>

While newspapers such as the ''[[Journal des débats]]'', ''[[Le Moniteur Universel|Le Moniteur]]'', and ''[[Le Constitutionnel]]'' had already ceased publication in compliance with the new law, nearly 50 journalists from a dozen city newspapers met in the offices of ''[[Le National (newspaper)|Le National]]''. There they signed a collective protest, and vowed their newspapers would continue to run.<ref name="Mansel238" />

That evening, when police raided a news press and seized contraband newspapers, they were greeted by a sweltering, unemployed mob angrily shouting, "''À bas les Bourbons!''" ("Down with the Bourbons!") and "''Vive la Charte!''" ("Long live the Charter!").

[[Armand Carrel]], a journalist, wrote in the next day's edition of ''Le National'':
<blockquote>France... falls back into revolution by the act of the government itself... the legal regime is now interrupted, that of <u>force</u> has begun... in the situation in which we are now placed obedience has ceased to be a duty... It is for France to judge how far its own resistance ought to extend.<ref>{{harvnb|Pinkney|1972|pp=83–84}}; {{Cite book |last=de Rémusat |first=Madame |author-link=Madame de Rémusat |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3H0vAAAAMAAJ |title=Mémoires de Madame de Rémusat 1802-1808 |date=1880 |publisher=Calmann Lévy |volume=2 |pages=313–314 |language=fr}}; Lendré 107</ref></blockquote>

Despite public anger over the police raid, Jean-Henri-Claude Magin, the Paris ''[[Préfet de police]]'', wrote that evening: "the most perfect tranquility continues to reign in all parts of the capital. No event worthy of attention is recorded in the reports that have come through to me."<ref>{{harvnb|Pinkney|1972|p=93}}.</ref>