EXTRAITS du Drapeau Blanc.

Paris, A la Librairie Classique Élémentaire, 1823. (6), 100 pp. 8vo. Modern boards, contemporary blind covers preserved. See Hatin, pp. 340 and 345 for the journals Le Défenseur and the Drapeau Blanc. Contains articles by Saint-Victor and several by Lamennais: among which De la Saint-Alliance, De l'Espagne, and Quelques Réflexions sur notre État présent.Most of the collaborators of the Drapeau Blanc had previously been working for Le Défenseur, the short-lived royalist periodical and successor to the much more succesful Conservateur. With the establishment of the Villèle government part of the staff of Le Défenseur identified itself with power, a smaller minority called l'incorruptible, moved to found the Drapeau Blanc.The Drapeau Blanc was an ultraroyalist newspaper of the Restoration and expressed from the start the most extreme ultraroyalist views to be found in the whole of the Restoration press. From 1820 on, the censors removed a great many articles from the Drapeau Blanc.The 'Avertissement' claims that the continuous requests for the reprinting of certain articles has made the present publication necessary in which the more important articles on politics and religious questions are published again. - The first leaf with a repaired tear in the outer blank margin, paper somewhat browned, last part of the volume with a faint stain in the outer blank margin.