Le Voltaire (newspaper)
Le Voltaire was a French daily newspaper first published on 5 July 1878. It ceased publication in the 1930s.[1]
Nicknamed Le Figaro républicain, the paper was created in order to support Gambetta, the leader of the Republican Union, the party of moderate radicals.
Its founding editor was
We want to disperse, once and for all, in this free and enlightened world of our republic, the last fatalities and the last remains of ignorance, which is the nemesis of the spirit, and of hatred, which is the enemy of the heart.
Writers who contributed to the paper included
A guide to Parisian newspaper published in 1882 described several of its writers as "some of the first journalists in France", one "brilliant" and another "teeming with imagination". It included Le Voltaire under the heading "Republican newspapers" and noted that it had published a long series of articles in favor of legalizing divorce.[4]
Notes
- ^ ISBN 9781443804776. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ Maupassant, contes et nouvelles, page 1535, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade
- ISBN 9781443804776. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ M. Joseph Reinach (1882). "Parisian Newspapers". The Nineteenth Century. XII (July December 1882). London: 354–5. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
External links
- Le Voltaire (Paris. 1878) on Data.bnf.fr]