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Bernard Pivot, centre, in Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay in the 1980s. His father, Charles, is to the right, wearing a tricolour ribbon. In 1985, Pivot created the Championnats d'orthographe ("Spelling Championships") with linguist Micheline Sommant, [8] which in 1992 became Championnats mondiaux d'orthographe ("World Spelling Championships"), then the Dicos d'or ("Golden Dictionaries") in 1993.
Le Monde was founded in 1944, [8] [9] 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. [10]
[1] After the fall of Paris on 14 June 1940, it fell back to Limoges , then Marseille , then Limoges again, and finally Lyon . It had various supplements: Le Journal pour tous , 1891–1906; La Mode du Journal , 1896–1898; La Vraie mode , 1898–1913; Le Journal (Édition du littoral) , 1907–1911.
Le Journal de l'île de la Réunion ; Le Journal de la Haute-Marne (Haute-Marne) Le Journal de Saône et Loire ; Le Journal du Centre ; Le Maine libre ; Le Parisien (Île-de-France, Oise) Le Petit Bleu d'Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) Le Populaire du Centre (Creuse, Haute-Vienne) Le Progrès (Auvergne, Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Rhône-Alpes)
Before the end of the year 2006, the group La Vie-Le Monde, majority shareholder since 2005 of the group Les Journaux du Midi (Midi Libre, L'Indépendant, Centre Presse), formed a plan to take control of the regional daily papers of the company Groupe Hachette-Filipacchi (Groupe Nice-matin, La Provence) through a holding company with the subsidiary Lagardère.
In the early 21st century, the best-selling daily was the regional Ouest-France in 47 local editions, followed by Le Progres of Lyon, La Voix du Nord in Lille, and Provençal in Marseille. In Paris the Communists published l'Humanite while Le Monde and Figaro had local rivals in Le Parisien , L'Aurore and the leftist Libération .
Le Monde illustré was established in 1857. [1] Many of the highly realistic prints published in the medium of wood-engraving were actually made from photographs (through intermediary drawings), at a time when photographic reproduction in print was not technically feasible until the late nineteenth century. Bal des folles 22 March 1890, José Belon
Rita Baga (born Jean-François Guevremont) is a Canadian drag queen and television personality from Montreal, Quebec. [2]She is best known as a top three finalist in the first season of Canada's Drag Race.