Socpresse was a French corporation which controlled the conservative daily newspaper ''

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'', the weekly magazine ''

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'', 40% of the weekly ''

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'', '' Valeurs Actuelles'', and the football club

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. The company was acquired by the

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in September 2006. Before that date, 13% of the shares belonged to Aude Ruettard, the granddaughter of

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. After the acquisition, Dassault sold off most of the company, retaining ''

'' and FC Nantes; in 2011, Dassault renamed its remaining core media assets

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. In total, the Socpresse group owned about 70 newspapers. A partial list includes:Socpresse
Observatoire français des médias *

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(via Société Delaroche, a fully owned subsidiary) * Le Maine Libre (via société d'exploitation du Maine Libre, a 99% owned subsidiary) * Nord Matin (via the 98% owned subsidiary Presse Nord) * La Voix du Nord, Nord Eclair, Nord Littoral, L'avenir de l'Artois, L'Indépendant du Pas de Calais * Le Courrier de l'Ouest Socpresse also owned 27% of the newspaper company Est Républicain, a company that controls

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, Le Journal de la Haute-Marne, Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, Le Journal de la Haute-Marne. It had a 49% ownership stake in the local TV station ''TV Nantes Atlantique''; and also owns the web sites sport24.com and evene.fr.

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