- La Dépêche du Midi
La Dépêche du Midi is a regional daily newspaper published in
Toulouse in south-westFrance , with 17 editions for different areas of theMidi-Pyrénées region.The paper first appeared on 2 October 1870, when it was called La Dépêche de Toulouse. Publication was prompted by workers at the Sirven print works in Toulouse, which established the paper's left-leaning politics.It was at La Dépêche that the socialist politician
Jean Jaurès wrote his first articles. The paper also publishedGeorges Clémenceau . In the big issue of the day, theDreyfus affair , the paper first insistedAlfred Dreyfus had given army secrets to the Germans but then came out in his support.The paper fell under German control after the occupation of
1940 . Like other newspapers which had collaborated during the war, La Dépêche de Toulouse was closed by the post-war government in 1944. It reappeared under its current name in 1947.External links
*http://www.ladepeche.com
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