''La Dépêche'', formally ''La Dépêche du Midi'', is a regional daily newspaper published in

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in Southwestern

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with seventeen editions for different areas of the

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region. The main local editions are for Toulouse, Ariège,

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Haute-Garonne Haute-Garonne (; oc, Nauta Garona, ; en, Upper Garonne) is a department in the Occitanie region of Southwestern France. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country' ...

Gers Gers (; oc, Gers or , ) is a department in the region of Occitania, Southwestern France. Named after the Gers River, its inhabitants are called the ''Gersois'' and ''Gersoises'' in French. In 2019, it had a population of 191,377.

, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne,

Hautes-Pyrénées Hautes-Pyrénées (; Gascon/ Occitan: ''Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus'' awts piɾeˈnɛʊs es, Altos Pirineos; ca, Alts Pirineus alts piɾiˈneʊs English: Upper Pyrenees) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. ...

, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne.

History and profile

The newspaper first appeared on 2 October 1870 when it was called ''La Dépêche de Toulouse''.140 ans
... En cette année anniversaire de la création de « La Dépêche du Midi », fondée en 1870, Publication was prompted by workers at the Sirven print works in Toulouse, which established the paper's

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-leaning politics. It was at ''La Dépêche'' that the

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politician Jean Jaurès wrote his first articles. The paper also published the articles by

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 ...

. In the big issue of the day, the

Dreyfus affair The Dreyfus affair (french: affaire Dreyfus, ) was a political scandal that divided the French Third Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. "L'Affaire", as it is known in French, has come to symbolise modern injustice in the Francop ...

, the paper first insisted

Alfred Dreyfus Alfred Dreyfus ( , also , ; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most polarizing political dramas in modern French history. ...

had given army secrets to the

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but then came out in his support. The paper fell under German control after the occupation of 1940. Like other newspapers that had collaborated during the war, ''La Dépêche de Toulouse'' was closed by the postwar government in 1944. It reappeared under its current name in 1947. Like its predecessor ''La Dépêche du Midi'' has a leftist stance. The newspaper is part of Groupe La Dépêche du Midi. The combined circulation for the 17 regional dailies under ''La Dépêche du Midi'' was 200,000 copies in 2006.

References

External links

Official website
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