 When news of the French Revolution of 1848 reached New York, Gaillardet returned to France to participate in the construction of the new republic and defend his conservative ideas.He sold the "Courrier" to Paul Arpin, a French translator for the Louisiana newspaper "L'Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans".Arpin turned it into a republican newspaper, attacking the royalists of the Parti de l'Ordre and Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.