La Voix du Nord

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La Voix du Nord
TypeRegional daily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Rossel Group
Founded1941; 83 years ago (1941)
LanguageFrench
HeadquartersLille
Circulation231,066 (2014)
WebsiteVoix du Nord

La Voix du Nord (French: [la vwa dy nɔʁ]; lit. The Voice of the North or The Voice of Nord) is a regional daily newspaper from the north of France. Its headquarters are in Lille.[1]

History

Voix du Nord was one of the underground newspapers of the French Resistance founded in German-occupied France during World War II. The paper first appeared in Lille in April 1941 at a time when the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais was being ruled by a German military government in Brussels.[2] The newspaper's tag-line described itself as the "Resistance organ of French Flanders."[2] The paper is part of the Belgian company, Rossel group,[3] which also owns the major Belgian newspaper Le Soir, which it bought from Socpresse in 2006.

Origins

The edition of 1 April 1942}} at the Resistance Museum of Bondues [fr]

La Voix du Nord is a clandestine newspaper that gave rise to a movement of political resistance. The resistance group was called Voix du Nord ("Voice of the North", or, "Voice of the Nord"). Sixty-five copies of the first issue of the newspaper were printed, dated April 1941. It clearly announced the newspaper's mission statement:

In France no newspaper, no radio, and no man can speak freely in the French language. The only French voices come to us through the radio from London; we are in agreement with them; and we think: one does not compromise with duty and honor; one does not compromise with evil; one does not collaborate with the enemy.

— Source: La Voix du Nord, April 1941[4][a]

The newspaper affirmed its support for General de Gaulle and its opposition to the Vichy government. At the outset, they were two very different men: Jules Noutour, police brigadier, trade unionist, and socialist member of the SFIO party; joined by Natalis Dumez [fr], Catholic social. Dumez was the heart and soul of the editorial staff: she was primarily responsible for the four hundred articles that appeared in the first 39 issues. Noutour was arrested on 8 September 1943 and deported to Gross Rosen, where he died 1 February 1945.[5]

From the four Roneotyped pages of the first day, the newspaper rapidly grew to six, and then ten pages. Due to the difficulties in obtaining supplies of paper, the page count was later reduced to four pages in February 1943. Circulation was around 900 copies initially, growing to 15000 in January 1943. The paper came out every two weeks through September 1942, and monthly from 1943 on.

The last two issues were published in July and August 1944 under the responsibility of Jules Houcke, who published the first openly distributed issue of "La Voix du Nord" on September 5, 1944. The first page is crossed out, with a headline spanning six columns: "The Northern Region is free. Freedom and independence were purchased at a high price: prison, torture, death camps for more than 530 people, who wrote, printed, and distributed these newspapers."[b]

Modern

Voix du Nord is published in tabloid. The paper sponsors the Grand Prix de Fourmies bicycle race.[citation needed]

Circulation

Year Circulation
1998 323,000[1]
2000 332,000[6]
2001 320,000[7]
2002 307,191[8]
2003 315,000[9]
2014 231,066[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b William Kidd; Sian Reynolds (1 May 2014). Contemporary French Cultural Studies. Routledge. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-4441-6556-2. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b Julian Jackson (2001). France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 412. ISBN 0-19-820706-9.
  3. ^ "Belgian French-language news publishers, authors societies and Google reach partnership agreement" (PDF). Copie Presse. Brussels. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  4. ^ Duhamel, Jean-Marie (2011). "Printemps 1941 - automne 1942 : le temps des fondateurs" [Spring 1941 - Fall 1942: the time of the founders]. La Voix du Nord.
  5. ^ Rudolph, Luc (2015). Policemen vs. policemen. Paris: SPE.
  6. ^ "Top 100 dailies 2000". campaign. 16 November 2001. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  7. ^ Adam Smith (15 November 2002). "Europe's Top Papers". Campaign. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  8. ^ "Media Markets and Newspapers" (PDF). SFN Flash. 7 (1). 7 January 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  9. ^ "World Press Trends" (PDF). World Association of Newspapers. Paris. 2004. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  10. ^ "La Voix du Nord". OJD. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2015.

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