La Libre Belgique

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La Libre Belgique ( Free Belgium ) is a Belgian daily newspaper founded in 1915 in French . It is one of the most widely read in Belgium and is sold roughly equally in all three regions (43.5% in Wallonia , 30% in Flanders and 26% in Brussels-Capital ).

The newspaper is considered a conservative intelligence paper. Until 1999 she was very strongly Catholic. At 15.7%, the share of readers from the upper middle class is very high compared to other French-language daily newspapers such as Le Soir (6.3%).

La Libre Belgique offers six different regional parts: La Libre Belgique Brabant Wallon in the province of Walloon Brabant , La Libre Belgique Flandre in the Flemish region , La Libre Belgique Gazette de Liège in the province of Liege , La Libre Belgique Hainaut in the province of Hainaut and La Libre Belgique Namur-Luxembourg in the provinces of Namur and Luxembourg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean Gol: Le monde de la presse en Belgique. Editions du Center de Recherche et d'Information socio-politiques, Brussels 1970, p. 188.
  2. ^ Jean-François Bastin: Le phénomène "Libre Belgique". Éditions Vie ouvrière, Brussels 1972, p. 6.

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