The purpose was to create opposition to the government by strictly legitimate means, mainly letters and political journals.
The founders and active members were mostly from the Doctrinaires party, including François Guizot, who was president for some time, Tanneguy Duchâtel, Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne, Paul-François Dubois, Charles de Rémusat, Adolphe Thiers and Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac.
[1] Charles Renouard was among the liberals who opposed the Bourbon Restoration.
[2] He was a member of the "Aide-toi" society and participated in the creation of the Globe.
[3] Although intimate with Lafayette and others, the lawyer Odilon Barrot (1797–1877) took no share in their schemes for the overthrow of the government, but in 1827 joined the Aide-toi association.