The Courrier des Etats-Unis was a French language
newspaper published by French immigrants in New York. Founded in
1828 by Félix Lacoste with the help of Joseph Bonaparte[1], who
was living in New Jersey, it ceased publication in 1940.
The Courrier was the most famous French newspaper in the
United States, in North America and in South America and Caraïba.
In 1850, it counted more than 11.000 registered[2] readers
and was distributed from Quebec to Rio de la Plata, from New York
to San Francisco. It also had readers in France.
During its first 20 years of existence, the Courrier knows
a very interesting part of his life[3].
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Founded by Félix Lacoste, a closed friend of Joseph
Bonaparte, the Courrier took a bonapartist line. Its
readers were often bonapartist or republican in exile :
Général Lallemand, Lakanal and others.
After the Three Glorious
Days in France (27 ,28, 29 of July 1830), the Courrier
attacked the new monarchy and the new king Louis-Philippe. It accuses the monarchy of
stealing the French revolution principles and to forget what the
French people claimed and fought for during the Three Glorious Days. The newspaper argued
that Bonapart family would be the best defender of nation's
will.
After 1836, the Courrier became the property of a French librarian of New York : Charles de Behr. He was a supporter of Louis-Philippe and shifted the newspaper's line accordingly. In 1839, Frédéric Gaillardet (1808-1882) bought the Courrier. He really transforms the newspaper. He wanted that the Courrier become the "organe des populations franco-américaines", it means the Courrier reach all the French-speaking peoples in America. File:Http:/www.agf-consultant.ca/images/CEUagentsUS18281845.png
When news of the French Revolution of 1848 reached New York, Frédéric Gaillardet decided to return to France and participate in the construction of the new republic and defend his conservatist idea. He sold the Courrier to Paul Arpin, a French redactor of the Louisiana newspaper L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans. With Arpin the Courrier become a republican newspaper which attacked the royalists of the Parti de l'Ordre and Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.
After the Republican period, history of the Courrier des Etats-Unis is not very known. We know that during the American Civil War it supported South.
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