''La Vérité'' ('The Truth') was a

French language French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-R ...

radical socialist weekly newspaper published from

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

. It was founded in 1931 by P. Destrées (a French lawyer, who had arrived in China from Paris a short time before the launching).
Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier
'. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 569
The China Weekly Review
', Vol. 58. Millard Publishing House, 1931. pp. 276, 465 ''La Vérité'' immediately stirred up a lot of controversy in the

Shanghai French Concession The Shanghai French Concession was a concessions in China, foreign concession in Shanghai, Republic of China (1912–1949), China from 1849 until 1943. For much of the 20th century, the area covered by the former French Concession remained the ...

, as it continuously attacked the French Chief of Police, Captain Fiori, and other public officials for inaction in curbing gambling in the area.Wakeman, Frederic E.
Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937
'. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. p. 393 The contemporary ''China Weekly Review'' labelled the publication 'spicy'.

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