Courrier d'Avignon

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Courrier d'Avignon

description French weekly newspaper
publishing company Avignon and Monaco
First edition January 2, 1733
attitude 1793
Frequency of publication bi-weekly, then daily
Sold edition up to 9,000 copies
Article archive since January 2, 1733
Title page of the ninth edition from 1733.

The Courrier d'Avignon was an eighteenth century French newspaper that held an important place in the international French-language press , with a circulation of up to 9,000 copies .

The Courrier was temporarily published in a papal enclave near Monaco , where it was under ecclesiastical supervision, but could evade the press censorship of the French royal state. The Courrier d'Avignon appeared from 1733 to 1793 with two interruptions. The first took place between July 1768 and August 1769, when Avignon was annexed by France. The second was from November 1790 to May 1791, during the French Revolution .

history

On January 2, 1733 , François Morénas founded the newspaper as " Le Courier historique, politique, galant et moral " and initially published it every two weeks. Already at the end of 1733 it proved to be a great financial success. On July 15, 1768 , Avignon was occupied by the French and the publication of the newspaper was stopped at short notice. The publishers fled to Monaco, where they were under the protection of Prince Honoré III. stood. It was not until February 3, 1769 , that the newspaper reappeared under the name Courrier and renamed itself in 1771 to Courrier de Monaco . It returned to Avignon in 1775 and from 1788 was again called the Courrier d'Avignon . From 1789 three and 1790 even six issues per week appeared. In 1790, under the direction of post director M ile Leblanc, the newspaper was briefly called Journal politique d'Avignon . A municipal decree forbade M ile Leblanc a further publication of the journal, which appeared from November 30, 1790 at irregular intervals under the editing of her assistant Sabin Tournal . After a resolution, M ile Leblanc received the journal back and published it again from May 24, 1791 . Sabin Tournal was not satisfied with the political orientation of the journal, and brought at the same time a Jacobin embossed Courrier d'Avignon out who was far more radical than its counterpart. This still appeared irregularly until 1793 and was finally discontinued with the occupation of Avignon by the Marseillaisers . The Leblanc edition was abolished a year earlier and publicly burned on August 18, 1792 .

See also

literature

  • Eugène Hatin: Bibliographie historique et critique de la presse périodique française , edited by Firmin Didot, 1866.
  • R. Moulinas: L'imprimerie, la librairie et la presse à Avignon au XVIII e siècle , Grenoble, Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1974.
  • R. Moulinas: Du rôle de la poste royale comme moyen de contrôle financier sur la diffusion des gazettes en France au XVIII e siècle in Modèles et moyens de la réflexion politique au XVIII e siècle , Actes du Colloque organisé par l'Université lilloise des Lettres , Sciences humaines et Arts, du 16 au 19 octobre 1973, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Publications de l'Université de Lille III, 1977.
  • R. Moulinas: Dictionnaire des journaux: 1600-1789 , Universitas, 1991, notices n ° 261 ( Courrier d'Avignon 1, 1733–1768), 262 ( Courrier d'Avignon 2, 1769–1775), 263 ( Courrier d ' Avignon 3, 1775-1793).
  • R. Moulinas: Les avatars du Courrier d'Avignon dans les premières années de la Révolution in Les gazettes européennes de langue française: XVII e -XVIII e siècles , Table ronde internationale, Saint-Étienne, 21–23 May 1992, Center d ' étude du XVIII e , Saint-Étienne, Center d'étude des sensibilités, Université Stendhal, Grenoble, Saint-Étienne, Publications de l'université de Saint-Étienne, 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b R. Moulinas: L'imprimerie , p. 383.
  2. ^ Courrier d'Avignon - Le contexte
  3. ↑ a b c d Eugène Hatin: Bibliographie historique et critique de la presse périodique française , p. 306.
  4. ↑ a b c Historique du Courrier dit d'Avignon
  5. ^ Susanne Lachenicht : Information and Propaganda: the press of German Jacobins in Alsace (1791-1800) , Munich, 2004, p. 143.