La Sentinelle (newspaper)

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La Sentinelle (French for Die Schildwache ) was a social democratic daily newspaper from the Neuchâtel Jura .

history

Neuchatel labor organizations founded the newspaper while in 1890, regularly and as a daily newspaper published La Sentinelle but from 1912 onwards the publishing of the cooperative print shop in the industrial city of La Chaux-de-Fonds . The paper was supported by the social democratic parties of the canton of Neuchâtel and the then Bernese Jura. Financially troubled, it merged in October 1965 with Le Peuple , the social democratic daily newspaper of Vaud and Geneva, and appeared under the double name Le Peuple - La Sentinelle (French for: The people - The Sentinel ). However, this merger was not economically successful, which is why the newspaper had to cease publication in 1971. The newspaper can be viewed on microfilm in the La Chaux-de-Fonds municipal library.

Content orientation

Various well-known politicians and writers published in the Sentinelle and gave it a pacifist , anti-militarist , anti-communist , anti-fascist and polemic profile. Up until the 1950s it had success with its readership, but during the Second World War it repeatedly came into conflict with press censorship . In particular, the attacks against Germany and articles that reported on the Holocaust angered the authorities in Bern. In the same vein, the newspaper took a critical stance on French policy in North Africa during the Algerian War.

Authors

Well-known authors included Walter Biolley , Charles Naine (editor-in-chief from 1902), Ernest-Paul Graber , Jules Humbert-Droz , Lucien de Dardel and Edmond Privat . The last editor-in-chief was from 1963 René Meylan .

literature

  • René Meylan: Sentinelle toujours vivante. 1964-1970. Parti socialiste neuchâtelois, Neuchâtel 1975.
  • Marc Perrenoud: La Sentinelle sous surveillance. In: Swiss History Journal . Vol. 37, 1987, pp. 137-168 ( doi : 10.5169 / seals-80979 ).

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