''La Liberté'' (, ) was a French
Legitimist
The Legitimists () are royalists who adhere to the rights of dynastic succession to the French crown of the descendants of the eldest branch of the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the 1830 July Revolution. They reject the claim of t ...
newspaper
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created in July 1865 by Charles-François-Xavier Müller and sold in 1866 to
Émile de Girardin
Émile de Girardin (; 22 June 180227 April 1881) was a French journalist, publisher and politician. He was the most successful and flamboyant French journalist of the era, presenting himself as a promoter of mass education through mass journalism ...
. Its last issue was published in 1940.
[David Wingeate Pike. ''France Divided: The French and the Civil War in Spain 2011''. ISBN 184519490X. Page 288. "But its press run was mediocre.46* More impressive was Jacques Doriot, who had broken with the Communists in 1934 47* and founded, on 26 June 1936, the Parti Populaire Francais (PPF), recruiting followers from both extremes... and on 24 May, with the help of a former minister, Désiré Ferry, he took over the evening journal La Liberté, up to then in the hands of Andre Tardieu, the founder of the republican centre, a close friend of Clemenceau, and a former prime minister."]
Editors
* 1866–1870 :
Émile de Girardin
Émile de Girardin (; 22 June 180227 April 1881) was a French journalist, publisher and politician. He was the most successful and flamboyant French journalist of the era, presenting himself as a promoter of mass education through mass journalism ...
;
* 1870–1876 :
Léonce Détroyat ;
* 1876–1889 : Louis Gal ;
* 1893–1898 : Jules Franck ;
* 1898–1911 :
Georges Berthoulat ;
* 1922–1933 : Camille Aymard ;
* 1934–1936 :
Désiré Ferry ;
* 1937–1940 :
Jacques Doriot
Jacques Doriot (; 26 September 1898 – 22 February 1945) was a French politician, initially communist, later fascist, before and during World War II.
In 1936, after his exclusion from the French Communist Party, he founded the French Popular Pa ...
.
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1865 establishments in France
1870 disestablishments in France
Defunct newspapers published in France
Newspapers established in 1865
Publications disestablished in 1870
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