| Le Petit Journal is a daily newspaper born in 1863 and deceased in 1944. In the 1890s, at its peak, it had a running length of one million copies. | The journal organised the first car race in history: Paris-Rouen in 1894! |
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Le Petit Marseillais
Le plus important des journaux de province. Le Petit Marseillais started to appear in 1868. In the 1930s it was considered the most important provincial newspaper with a circulation of 350 000. During World War II they leaned to the wrong side and the newspaper disappeared after the French liberation in 1944. The Midi Libre took over. |
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| Meyreuil (13, France), VII.2007; pict. A. Guët |
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| Mechelen (Belgium), 12.IX.1999 | Cerbère (66, France), VII.2002; pict. A. Guët | |||
| Gazet van Mechelen
(Gazet = Newspaper) This daily was born in 1896 as a sister of the Gazet van Antwerpen (=Antwerp). The title existed exactly one century when the regional edition was absorbed again in the Gazet van Antwerpen during the lean-sizing exercise in 1996. |
L'Indépendant and
in the white blot Votre Journal
The Independent but then in French. L'Indépendant stems from a title founded in 1846 and disappeared after World War II for the same reasons as Le Petit Marseillais. The newspaper reappeared in 1950 and eventually became part of a larger group in the south of France. |
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Thirteen years between both pictures.
The rightmost strip is now visible and still coloured a trifle darker than the rest.
The same wall carries several brands more: Solonia (fertilizer), Igol (lubricant), Suze (liquor) and a weak Canard-Duchêne (champagne). |
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| Fiton (11, France), VII.2002; pict. A. Guët |
Fiton (11, France), 02.10.2015; pict. J. Helmons |
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| Ici on lit .. Midi Libre
1er Journal du Midi or People here read the Midi Libre. The prime daily of the south. |
Midi Libre was published for the first time in 1944 after the liberation and coinciding with the arrival of General de Gaulle in Paris. |
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| Le Grand Entrevins (N151, France), VIII.2003 |
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| Lisez La Nouvelle République Le quotidien du centre-ouest |
Read La Nouvelle République The daily of the north-west. |
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La Nouvelle République du centre-ouest is born from the resistance.
Notice the shape of the message box. It's what commuters see every morning in the opposite seat. |
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