In the winter of 1849 Mickiewicz founded a French-language newspaper, "La Tribune des Peuples" ("The Peoples' Tribune"), supported by a wealthy Polish émigré activist, . Mickiewicz wrote over 70 articles for the "Tribune" during its short existence: it came out between 15 March and 10 November 1849, when the authorities shut it down. His articles supported democracy and socialism and many ideals of the French Revolution and of the Napoleonic era, though he held few illusions regarding the idealism of the House of Bonaparte. He supported the restoration of the French Empire in 1851. In April 1852 he lost his post at the Collège de France, which he had been allowed to keep (though without the right to lecture). On 31 October 1852 he was hired as a librarian at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. There he was visited by another Polish poet, Cyprian Norwid, who wrote of the meeting in his poem, ""Czarne kwiaty"" ("Black Blossoms"); and there Mickiewicz's wife Celina died.