The Newspaper

the Newspaper was a Quotidien French which appeared between 1892 and 1944.

the Newspaper is launched the September 18th 1892 by the journalist Fernand Xau (1852-1899), old business manager of Buffalo Bill at the time of the French round of the Buffalo Bill' S Wild West Show . Its project is to create a “literary journal of a penny” intended to the small shopkeepers, to the teachers, to the workmen and for the employees.

Quickly, Xau is surrounded by large signatures like Maurice Barrès, Emile Zola, Leon Daudet, Jules Renard, Alphonse Allais and Georges Courteline. It installs the drafting with 100, rue de Richelieu, in IIe district of Paris, then lance in 1893 a illustrated weekly supplement, the Newspaper for all . Of republican sensitivity, the Newspaper is a good success, with a pulling of 450.000 specimens at the end of the 19th century. Fernand Xau repurchases the literary review then Gil Blas which in particular published Maupassant, Musset and George Sand.

After the death of Xau in 1899, the Newspaper is directed by Henri Letellier, with Jose María de Heredia at the literary position of director. Its leading contents change in 1911, date on which the senator of the Meuse Charles Humbert is named political director of the daily newspaper. It prints a preserving and nationalist political line then to him. The public follows: the pulling of the Journal reaches a million specimens, which enables him to counterbalance the weight of its large rival, the Morning .

After the First World War, the preserving orientation of the Journal is reinforced with the arrival with the Directorate of Political Affairs of François-Ignace Mouthon, catholic journalist and anti-semite. Then a scandal shakes the reputation of the daily newspaper: one of its shareholders, Pierre Lenoir, is convinced of espionage and is shot the October 24th 1919. Its pulling decreases then by half.

In spite of a new formula, which privileges large the Reportage S and the investigations, the Newspaper does not manage to join again with success. The title will be finally sold in January 1925 with a group of investors formed by the director of the casino of Deauville, the Agence Havas and the Banque of Paris and the Netherlands.

A new team takes the direction of the drafting gradually and, in 1929, the Newspaper repurchases the daily newspaper the Echo of the sports . In complement of the serials, like those of Maurice Leblanc and Gaston Leroux, his pages publish famous texts of writers, like Blaise Cendrars or Colette, which holds to with it a weekly heading until 1938.

The political line of the newspaper remains anchored on the right. In the Years 1930, it affirms anticommunist and recommends an alliance with the fascistic Italy. When the Second world war bursts, the Newspaper is exiled initially with Limoges, then with Marseilles, and finally with Lyon. It will be suspended into 1944 before ceasing definitively its publication the same year. Part of its files are then allotted to the daily newspaper the Dawn .

Sources

Christine Nougaret (to dir.), sources of files relating to the newspapers and the journalists in the funds of Private archives (series AB XIX, AP, AQ, AR, ACE) XVIIIe-XXe centuries . Online version
Public records, Funds of the Newspaper , 1997. Online version.
Claude Bellanger (to dir.), general History of the French press , Volume III, PUF, 1972

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