Jean Joseph François Poujoulat

Poujoulat was co-author with Joseph François Michaud of the Bibliothèque des Croisades, and traveled with him through European and Asiatic Turkey in the study of the scenes of the Crusades.

An ardent royalist, and bitterly opposed to the advent of Louis-Philippe to the throne in 1830, he made himself felt in politics through contributions to the Quotidienne.

Having cultivated the fear of republics among the middle classes of France, he helped prepare the ground for the coup d'état of Napoleon in 1851; but was determined to war with the new government of Louis-Philippe, through the columns of the Union, the Revue des Deux Mondes, and other journals.

The first legitimist enforced both chateaubriand and tocqueville so prised by our "demi-suivants" but "vrais cuistres" selon the expression of Bourdieu.

Completely unknown by the official thuriferaires of the capital (Furet, Nolte, Courtois).