''L'Écho de Paris'' was a daily newspaper in

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from 1884 to 1944. The paper's editorial stance was initially

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and

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, but it later became close to the

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. Its writers included

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Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a ...

Henry Bordeaux Henry Bordeaux (25 January 1870 – 29 March 1963) was a French writer and lawyer. Bordeaux came from a family of lawyers of Savoy. He was born in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie. His grandfather was a magistrate and his father served on the Cha ...

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, Jérôme Tharaud, and

Jean Tharaud Jean Tharaud (9 May 1877 – 8 April 1952) was a French writer. Tharaud was born in Saint-Junien, Haute-Vienne. As a young man, he had been secretary to Maurice Barrès. He wrote books with his brother, Jérôme Tharaud, for over 50 years. In ...

. Its editors included

Franc-Nohain Maurice Étienne Legrand, who published under the pseudonym Franc-Nohain (; 25 October 187218 October 1934), was a French librettist and poet. He is best known for his libretti for Maurice Ravel's opera '' L'heure espagnole'' and for numerous oper ...

Abel Faivre Abel Faivre (30 March 1867 – 13 August 1945) was a French painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Early life and work Jules Abel Faivre was born in Lyon, France. He attended École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon for three years. He then attende ...

provided illustrations for the publication. The paper merged with ''Le Jour'' in 1933 and changed its name to ''Jour-Écho de Paris''.

References

Footnotes

Sources

*René de Livois, ''Histoire de la presse française'', Éditions Spes, Lausanne ; Société française du livre, Paris, 1965.

External links

* Digitized copies of ''L'Écho de Paris'
from 1884 to 1938
in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF 1884 establishments in France 1944 establishments in France Defunct newspapers published in France Newspapers published in Paris Newspapers established in 1884 Publications disestablished in 1944 Daily newspapers published in France {{france-newspaper-stub