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Le Monde was founded in 1944, [10] [11] at the request of General Charles de Gaulle, after the German army had been driven from Paris during World War II.The paper took over the headquarters and layout of Le Temps, which had been the most important newspaper in France, but its reputation had suffered during the Occupation. [12]
Goldstein, Robert Justin. "Fighting French Censorship, 1815-1881." French Review (1998): 785–796. in JSTOR; Gough, Hugh. The newspaper press in the French Revolution (Taylor & Francis, 1988) Isser, Natalie. The Second Empire and the Press: A Study of Government-Inspired Brochures on French Foreign Policy in Their Propaganda Milieu (Springer ...
Le Figaro (French: [lə fiɡaʁo] ⓘ) is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in a play by polymath Beaumarchais (1732–1799); one of his lines became the paper's motto: "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise".
Libération (French pronunciation: [libeʁɑsjɔ̃] ⓘ), popularly known as Libé (pronounced), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.
Collins, Ross F. "Newspapers of the French Left in Provence and Bas-Languedoc during the First World War," (PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1992) online Collins, Ross F. "The Business of Journalism in Provincial France during World War I." Journalism History 27 (2001), 112–121.
An 1893 publication of The New Orleans Bee. During the 19th and 20th centuries, hundreds of French-language newspapers, many short-lived, were published in the United States by Franco-Americans, immigrants from Canada, France, and other French-speaking countries.
L'Équipe (pronounced, French for "the team") is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury.The paper is noted for coverage of association football, rugby, motorsport, and cycling.
The paper's status was highest in the years after World War II, when the PCF was the dominant party of the French left and L'Humanité enjoyed a large circulation. Since the 1980s, however, the PCF has been in decline, mostly due to the rise of the Socialist Party, which took over large sections of PCF support; circulation and economic viability of L'Humanité have declined as well.