Michel Chevalier

[2] The paper was banned in 1832 when the "Simonian sect" was found to be prejudicial to the social order, and Chevalier, as its editor, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.

In the United States, Chevalier visited different parts of the country, studying American society, its manners, and political, social, and economic institutions.

He made some keen observations along the way that were published in France by the Journal des débats producing at the time "an immense effect".

[8] Orestes Brownson reviewed the book and wrote that "The work itself is highly important and interesting, and is well worth the perusal and even the study of every American citizen.

Together with Richard Cobden and John Bright he prepared the free trade agreement of 1860 between the United Kingdom and France, which is still called the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty.