''La Dépêche marocaine'' was a daily francophone Moroccan

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published in

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''La Dépêche marocaine'' is considered the oldest published newspaper in Morocco - after being founded by Rober-Raynaud in 1905. The paper reported the use of

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against the

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during the war between

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and Morocco on 27 November 1921. In 1951, ''

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'' journalist Claude Julien became its editor-in-chief. The newspaper ceased to be published in 1961. It was the only paper published in French in Morocco until its disestablishment. There exist collections of the newspaper in volumes in both the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the

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published by ''La Dépêche marocaine'' in February 1950
La Dépêche marocaine
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