Moniteur

Moniteur, Le, a French journal, started by the publisher Panckoucke, 5th May 1789, under the title of the Gazette Nationale, ou le Moniteur Universel. During the Revolution its reports, &c. were of very great importance, and its value was immensely increased when, in 1800, it was made the official organ of the government. It retained the privilege (without the first title, Gazette Nationale, which was dropped in 1811) down to 1869, when it was supplanted by the Journal Officiel. Afterwards it was issued as an Orleanist or private Conservative paper.