Le Matin (France)
Le Matin was a French
History
Le Matin was launched on the initiative of Chamberlain & Co., a group of American financiers and the American newspaper editor Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain,[2] in 1883, on the model of the British daily The Morning News. The direction of the project was entrusted to the French journalist Alfred Edwards,[3] who launched the first issue on 26 February 1884. His home was then situated in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at 6 boulevard Poissonnière, and his offices at numbers 3 to 9 on the same street.
A few months later, Edwards left Le Matin to found his own journal, Le Matin Français, which soon surpassed the circulation of Le Matin. Later Edwards bought Le Matin and merged the two papers. He modernized the resulting hybrid with the most modern techniques and technologies such as the
Implicated in the Panama scandals, Edwards re-sold the newspaper in 1895 to the banker and advertiser Henri Poidatz, who invested considerably in advertising in it. The journal was particularly notable during the Dreyfus affair, as early as 1896 questioning the withheld evidence against the officer accused of treason and publishing in July, 1899 the confessions of commandant Esterhazy.
In May 1899, the newspaper followed a proven publicity and readership recruitment model by organising the
Le Matin's political leanings moved progressively towards nationalism and, after World War I, were openly anti-parliamentary and anti-Communist. It approved of collaborationist policies in June 1940 and adopted a pro-Nazi line before disappearing on 17 August 1944, a few days after the death of Maurice Bunau-Varilla.[5]
See also
- History of French journalism
- Le Pays de France, weekly newspaper edited by Le Matin during World War I
Notes
- ^ "Le Matin : derniers télégrammes de la nuit". Gallica. 1884-02-26. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ (in French) René Le Cholleux, Revue biographique des notabilités françaises contemporaines, tome 3, Paris, 1892, pp.332-333.
- ^ (in French) Pierre Albert, La presse française, Paris, 1998, p.169.
- ^ (in French) Les sources d’archives relatives aux journaux et aux journalistes dans les fonds d’Archives privées (séries AB XIX, AP, AQ, AR, AS) XVIIIe-XXe siècles ; Magali Lacousse Conservateur du patrimoine under the direction of Christine Nougaret, Conservateur général, responsable de la Section AP ; p. 24 ; IV. Les Journalistes, in série AR (Press archives) online Archived 2008-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- (in French) Photographs of Le Matin front pages
- Le Matin issues from 1882 to 1883 and also from 1884 to 1944 in BnF.
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