''Le Matin'' was a French-language daily newspaper in

Moncton Moncton (; ) is the most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the geographic centre of the The Maritimes, Maritime Provinces. The ...

, New Brunswick, Canada, founded on 11 August 1986 and disappearing on 29 June 1988. In the wake of the closure of '' L'Évangéline'' in October 1982 two Francophone daily papers were created in New Brunswick - ''Le Matin'' at Moncton and ''

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'' at Caraquet. Unlike its counterpart, ''Le Matin'' served the whole province. Despite this distribution on the provincial scale and despite subsidies, competition and the narrowness of the market, it did not achieve more than small circulation figures. Minimal advertising receipts brought its collapse barely two years after its launch. The chief editor and editorial-writer was

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, a writer who had been a cabinet member in the Hatfield government (1970-1987) on the linguistic question of New Brunswick.

Gérard Étienne Gérard Vergniaud Étienne (28 May 1936 – 14 December 2008) was a linguist, journalist and writer of poems, novels and essays. Biography Haiti Gérard Étienne wrote his first poems when only 13 and performed them on radio, but he left his pate ...

(Haitian poet, writer, linguist and journalist) was another of its editorial writers.

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