Adolphe Thiers, who has become very well known in Liberal society, had authored the celebrated Histoire de la revolution française, which had founded his literary career and helped his political fame.

The first two volumes had appeared in 1823, the last two (of ten) in 1827.

The accession to power of the Polignac ministry in August 1829 had made him change his plans to live a literary life, and at the beginning of the next year Thiers, with Armand Carrel, Mignet, Sautelet, and others, starts the National, a new opposition newspaper.