''L'Écho de Paris'' was a daily newspaper in

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from 1884 to 1944. The paper's editorial stance was initially

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and

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, but it later became close to the French Social Party. Its writers included

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, Henri de Kérillis,

Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a ...

Henry Bordeaux Henry Bordeaux (25 January 1870 – 29 March 1963) was a French writer and lawyer. Bordeaux came from a family of lawyers of Savoy. He was born in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie. His grandfather was a magistrate and his father served on the Chamb ...

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, and

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. Its editors included Franc-Nohain. Abel Faivre provided illustrations for the publication. The paper merged with ''Le Jour'' in 1933 and changed its name to ''Jour-Écho de Paris''.

References

Footnotes

Sources

*René de Livois, ''Histoire de la presse française'', Éditions Spes, Lausanne ; Société française du livre, Paris, 1965.

External links

* Digitized copies of ''L'Écho de Paris'
from 1884 to 1938
in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF 1884 establishments in France 1944 establishments in France Defunct newspapers published in France Newspapers published in Paris Newspapers established in 1884 Publications disestablished in 1944 Daily newspapers published in France {{france-newspaper-stub