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language

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published by in

La Chaux-de-Fonds La Chaux-de-Fonds (; archaic ) is a Swiss city in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura Mountains at an altitude of 992 metres, a few kilometres south of the French border. After Geneva, Lausanne, Biel/Bienne, and Fribourg, ...

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. Published since 1881, it was a sister newspaper to ''

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.'' The last edition of the newspaper was published on 22 January 2018. It merged with ''L'Express'' to create ''

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''.

History

The paper was founded by Alexandre Courvoisier in 1881 in

. The publisher of the paper took over the

Le Locle Le Locle (; ) is a Communes of Switzerland, municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is situated in the Jura Mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It is the third smallest city in Switzerland (in Swit ...

paper in 1967, giving its publisher a monopoly of journalism in the northern part of the canton. In 1992, Gassman AG (owner of the and newspapers) bought a majority of shares in . In 1996, it partially merged with another Neuchâtel newspaper, '. Afterwards, the two papers shared much of the same content and an editorial team, but differed in some of their regional coverage. No jobs were lost at either paper in the process of the merger. The publishing companies behind both papers merged in 1999, forming the . It merged with to create ''

'' in 2018. This was announced in August 2017 in an op-ed printed in both papers by the co-editor-in-chief Stéphane Devaux, who said things would change at the papers and that they were "in the middle of a vast project", opening up the possibility of merging their distribution. The name ''ArcInfo'' was the name already used for the online versions of both publications. The last edition of the newspaper was published on 22 January 2018. In 2005 its circulation was 16,530.

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