; ) was a literary, liberal, and socialist newspaper published in

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, France, from 1897 to 1914. Its most famous headline was

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's '' J'accuse...!'' leading into his article on the Dreyfus Affair. The newspaper was published by Georges Clemenceau, who later became the

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. Georges Mandel as a young man worked for the paper in its early years, and later was also recruited by Clemenceau to serve as his aide in government.

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* Digitized issues of ''L'Aurore'
1897 to 1916
'' Gallica,'' the digital library of the

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