Le Peuple (Switzerland)

Le Peuple (French for The People ) was a social democratic daily from Lausanne .

history

Le Peuple was founded in 1939. Before that there was a newspaper called Le droit du peuple ( People's Law ). The paper was supported by the social democratic parties of the cantons of Vaud and Geneva , of which she was the mouthpiece. Financially troubled, it merged in October 1965 with La Sentinelle , the social democratic daily from La Chaux-de-Fonds, and appeared under the double name Le Peuple - La Sentinelle (French for: The People - The Sentinel ). Since Le Peuple was already printed at La Sentinelle before the merger and individual pages were exchanged, this merger was not particularly drastic. Economically, however, it did not bring the desired success, which is why the newspaper had to cease publication in 1971.

Web links

• Marc Perrenoud: Sentinelle, La. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Raymond Spira: La Sentinelle, l'histoire d'un quotidien.

Individual evidence

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