L'Intransigeant
L'Intransigeant (French: The Uncompromising ) was a French daily newspaper that appeared in Paris from July 1880 to 1948 . It was founded on July 15, 1880 by Eugène Mayer , who also published La Lanterne , the first editor was Henri Rochefort . The daily newspaper initially represented positions of the political opposition and was printed with a circulation of around 70,000 copies in the year it was founded. The publication was based on Boulangism and in 1898 joined the anti-Semitic agitation against Alfred Dreyfus . From 1906, under the direction of Leo Bailby , it developed into the conservative newspaper with the highest circulation in France, with a circulation of around 400,000 copies in 1920. From 1931 onwards, the newspaper had a lower economic return and circulation reached about 130,000 issues in the late 1930s. After the red case , the daily newspaper was shut down in 1940. The newspaper appeared again for a short time in 1947, before its subscribers were taken care of by the editorial unit of Paris-Presse , which in turn was bought by France Soir in 1970 .
