La Liberté (France)

La Liberté (French pronunciation: [la libɛʁte], lit. 'The Liberty') was a French Legitimist newspaper created in July 1865 by Charles-François-Xavier Müller and sold in 1866 to Émile de Girardin. Its last issue was published in 1940.^[1]

Editors

1866–1870 : Émile de Girardin ;
1870–1876 : Léonce Détroyat ;
1876–1889 : Louis Gal ;
1893–1898 : Jules Franck ;
1898–1911 : Georges Berthoulat ;
1922–1933 : Camille Aymard ;
1934–1936 : Désiré Ferry ;
1937–1940 : Jacques Doriot.

References

^ David Wingeate Pike. France Divided: The French and the Civil War in Spain 2011. ISBN 184519490X. Page 288. "But its press run was mediocre.46* More impressive was Jacques Doriot, who had broken with the Communists in 1934 47* and founded, on 26 June 1936, the Parti Populaire Francais (PPF), recruiting followers from both extremes... and on 24 May, with the help of a former minister, Désiré Ferry, he took over the evening journal La Liberté, up to then in the hands of Andre Tardieu, the founder of the republican centre, a close friend of Clemenceau, and a former prime minister."

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[1] David Wingeate Pike. France Divided: The French and the Civil War in Spain 2011. ISBN 184519490X. Page 288. "But its press run was mediocre.46* More impressive was Jacques Doriot, who had broken with the Communists in 1934 47* and founded, on 26 June 1936, the Parti Populaire Francais (PPF), recruiting followers from both extremes... and on 24 May, with the help of a former minister, Désiré Ferry, he took over the evening journal La Liberté, up to then in the hands of Andre Tardieu, the founder of the republican centre, a close friend of Clemenceau, and a former prime minister."

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