Le Petit Marseillais
Type | Daily |
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Founder(s) | Toussaint Samat |
Founded | 1868 |
Language | French |
Ceased publication | 1944 |
Headquarters | Marseille |
Le Petit Marseillais was a daily regional newspaper published in Marseille between 1868 and 1944.
History
The newspaper was founded in Marseille in 1868 by Toussaint Samat (1841–1916), a typographer. It was nicknamed the "one-sou newspaper" because of its price (5 centimes, or one sou), while other newspapers cost two sous (10 centimes).[citation needed] For a long time Le Petit Marseillais was the only one-sou daily newspaper in the region.[1] In 1880 Le Petit Marseillais was the second largest provincial newspaper, behind Le Petit Lyonnais and ahead of La Dépêche.[2] In the 1880s Félix Dubois was one of the newspaper's European correspondents, writing from Berlin and Vienna.[3]
An 1887 directory of newspapers said Le Petit Marseillais was Republican, concerned with commerce and finance, with a circulation of 76,000.[4]
Competition became stronger with the appearance of the Le Radical,
In 1939 Le Petit Marseillais had a circulation of 150,000.[5] The newspaper covered the south east of France, Corsica and North Africa. It was moderate and continued to call itself "Republican".[6] Le Le Petit Marseillais controlled Le Petit Var, based in
Albert Lejeune was managing editor of Le Petit Marseillais and of Lyon Républicain and Le Petit Niçois during World War II. He was guided by the German authorities, and his newspapers supported collaboration. After
La Republique du Var reappeared after the war.[8] Le Petit Var was replaced by the communist Le Petit Varois.[7] Le Petit Marseillais was replaced by the communist La Marseillaise.[6] Its premises were taken over by La Marseillaise and Midi Soir.
Notes
- ^ a b Beudot 1999, p. 150.
- ^ Sassoon 2012, p. 150.
- ^ Saint-Martin 1986, p. 92.
- ^ Sells 1887, p. 532.
- ^ Pike 2011, p. 296.
- ^ a b Evleth 1999, p. 21.
- ^ a b Evleth 1999, p. 179.
- ^ a b Evleth 1999, p. 180.
- ^ Pike 2011, p. 255.
Sources
- Beudot, Françoise-Albane (1999). David Dellepiane: Peintre, affichiste, illustrateur. Editions Parenthèses. p. 150. ISBN 978-2-86364-098-2. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
- Evleth, Donna (1999). The Authorized Press in Vichy and German Occupied France, 1940-1944: A Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-313-30784-3. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
- Pike, David Wingeate (2011). France Divided: The French and the Civil War in Spain. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-84519-490-1. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
- Saint-Martin, Yves T. (1986). "Félix Dubois (1862-1945)" (PDF). Hommes et Destins. 7. Académie des sciences d'outre-mer. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- Sassoon, Donald (2012-06-28). The Culture of the Europeans (Text Only ed.). HarperCollins UK. p. 853. ISBN 978-0-00-740040-9. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
- Sells (1887). Sells' Dictionary of the World's Press. p. 532. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
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