Le Voltaire
Le Voltaire was a French daily newspaper. It first appeared on July 5, 1878 and was published until 1930.
description
The newspaper was created to support the policies of Léon Gambetta and his parliamentary group of the Union républicaine . Le Voltaire was therefore also nicknamed Le Figaro républicain . The first editor was the journalist Aurélien Scholl . In the first edition, “quotidien, politique, républican satirical” (daily, political, republican and satirical) were named as the leading words of the newspaper. Derived from the name of the French philosopher Voltaire , the newspaper understood itself in the sense of the Enlightenment and stood for anti-clericalism . The newspaper's authors included well-known writers such as Émile Zola , the Goncourt brothers , Guillaume Livet and Paul Alexis . In Le Voltaire , serialized stories also appeared, for example by Zola or George Moore ( A Mummer's Wife as La Femme du cabotin , published July – October 1886).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on Le Voltaire in the online database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
- ^ Mary Pierse: George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds , p. 53.
- ^ Mary Pierse: George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds , p. 53.
- ^ Mary Pierse: George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds , p. 56.