Le Devoir
| Le Devoir
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| description | daily newspaper |
| language | French |
| First edition | 1910 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 29,812 workday 48,228 Saturday edition (2011) copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Bernard Descôteaux |
| Web link | Le Devoir |
| ISSN |
0319-0722 |
Le Devoir is a French-language Canadian daily newspaper with editorial offices in Montreal .
history
The newspaper was founded in 1910 by Henri Bourassa (1868–1952), a significant figure at the time in Canada's political spectrum, which was at a distance from the United Kingdom . Bourassa also took over the editor-in-chief and held it until 1932.
Aimed at an intellectual audience, Le Devoir never became a mass newspaper, but instead became an important medium of the French-Canadian establishment. The close connection with political events was also evident in terms of personnel, for example Claude Ryan, one of the later editors-in-chief, became chairman of the Parti libéral du Québec after his editorial time . On the question of Québec's detachment from Canada, the newspaper leaned on the separatist side.
At times the paper was in considerable financial difficulties, but was finally able to show profits.
Le Devoir today
In 2006 Le Devoir had a print run of 28,351 (weekdays) and 45,974 (Saturdays) checked by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). Bernard Descôteaux has been the editor-in-chief since 1999.
literature
- "Le Devoir" 75 ans. Pour assurer le triomphe des idées. Anniversary edition of the newspaper from January 10, 1985
- Lucien Bouchard: Henri Bourassa, in Bâtisseurs d'Amérique: Des canadiens français qui ont faite de l'histoire. Ed. André Pratte, Jonathan Kay. La Presse , Montréal 2016
- Legacy. How french Canadians shaped North America. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2016; Reprint. 2019 ISBN 0771072392 pp. 104 - 137
Web links
- Esther Delisle: Le traître et le juif. Lionel Groulx , "Le Devoir" et le délire du nationalisme d'extrême droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939. L'Étincelle, Outremont 1992 (On the newspaper's anti-Semitism )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alliance for Audited Media ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved March 20, 2013
