October 1792 : Toussaint Bonvoisin (1741-1815), an ordinary merchant living in retirement in a house of the parish of Notre Dame (Le Havre), takes up his pen. Horrified by the September Massacres, he began to write a journal, Précis de la Révolution relativement à Louis 16. Respec du aux Rois et aux puissances, intending to educate his children about the misdeeds caused by the spiritual subversion brought about by the Revolution. This journal containing more than 4,000 pages, written even day to day during one full year, between Autumn 1793 and the closing of the club of Jacobins in November 1794, stretched until the beginning of 1803. The study of this « ego-document », which contains, interlaced, more than 200 newspapers from the revolutionary period, most of them excerpts from the royalist press of Rouen under the Directory, highlights the importance of a critique of the press in the writings of witnesses of the Revolutionary crisis. This practice, until then largely analyzed from the point of view of collective practices, emerged as an instrument used to overcome the difficulty of writing, a condition born of the series of traumas sustained between the Autumn 1793 and the Summer 1794. Moreover, it improved the pedagogy of an account whose principal aim was to ancor the rejection of the Revolution in the family memory.