Furthermore, Montblanc convinced the influential Parisian papers such as "Le Figaro," "Le Journal des débats," and "Le Temps" to publish an article in line with the opinion he had already been announced at the Geographic Society; that Japan was not ruled by a TOKUGAWA shogun as an absolute monarch, but instead was a federation where many local feudal lords exist, like in Germany, and that even the TOKUGAWA family was just one of those feudal lords.
モンブランはさらにパリの有力紙『フィガロ(新聞)』『デバ』『ル・タン』といった新聞に、すでに地理学会で発表していた「日本は絶対君主としての徳川将軍が治める国ではなく、ドイツと同様各地の大名が林立する領邦国家であり、徳川家といえども一大名に過ぎない」との論調の記事を掲載させた。