''L'Express du Midi'' was a daily newspaper published in
Toulouse
Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...
and serving that city as well as the surrounding
Haute-Garonne
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region in southern France. It was published between 1891 and 1938.
History
The first edition of the paper was published on 29 September 1891 with the subtitle "journal quotidien de Toulouse et du Sud-Ouest" (daily newspaper of Toulouse and the South-West). Subsequent subtitles were "organe quotidien de défense sociale et religieuse" (daily organ for social and religious defense) and "organe régional de redressement national, de défense religieuse et de progrès social" (regional organ for national recovery, religious defense and social progress).
From its inception, ''L'Express du Midi'' was right-wing and
royalist
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. Its first directors were a group of aristocrats from the Haute-Garonne (the counts of Suffren, Palaminy, and Adhémar), and it often published lengthy extracts from articles by
Charles Maurras
Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (; ; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, politician, poet and critic. He was an organiser and principal philosopher of ''Action Française'', a political movement that was monarchist, corporatis ...
who was the principal philosopher of
Action Française
''Action Française'' (, AF; ) is a French far-right monarchist and nationalist political movement. The name was also given to a journal associated with the movement, '' L'Action Française'', sold by its own youth organization, the Camelot ...
, a right-wing monarchist political movement. The paper claimed the upholding of
Roman Catholic
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values to be part of its mission, but its approach was not always looked upon with favour by Catholic prelates.
In 1893 ''L'Express'' absorbed ''Le Nouvelliste du Tarn'', a daily newspaper based in the department of
Tarn and established in 1880. In 1914 it absorbed ''Le Ralliement et le Courrier de Tarn-et-Garonne'', a daily paper also based in Tarn and established in 1904, and that same year took over the subscriptions to ''La Voix du peuple'', an organ of the Union Conservatrice party in
Gers
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. Between 1909 and 1914 the paper also published an edition for the
Hautes-Pyrénées
Hautes-Pyrénées (; Gascon/ Occitan: ''Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus'' awts piɾeˈnɛʊs ; alts piɾiˈneʊs ) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. The department is bordered by Pyrénées-Atlantiques to t ...
region entitled ''L'Action pyrénéenne''.
''L'Express'' ceased publication after its issue of 18 January 1938. On that day its front page featured articles on the Japanese seizure of
Kiautschou
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The bay has historically been romanized as Kiaochow, Kiauchau or Kiao-Chau in English and Kiautschou in German.
Geography ...
, the
Spanish Civil War
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, and the resignation of
Léon Blum
André Léon Blum (; 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century. He was a disciple of socialist l ...
as Vice-Premier of France as well as a lengthy article on the paper's history and its farewell by
Armand Praviel. It re-emerged two days later as ''La Garonne'' with the same address (25 rue Roquelaine, Toulouse), a new proprietor, and René Séguy as its editor. Its front page featured lengthy articles by Séguy and by
Abel Bonnard
Abel Jean Désiré Bonnard (; 19 December 1883 31 May 1968) was a French poet, novelist and politician.
Biography
Born in Poitiers, Vienne, his early education was in Marseille with secondary studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. A stu ...
on the newly launched paper's future direction and purpose. ''La Garonne'' ceased publication on 20 August 1944.
Notes
References
External links
All issues of ''L'Express du Midi'' from 1891 to 1938scanned by the Bibliothèque de Toulouse
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Defunct newspapers published in France
1891 establishments in France
1938 disestablishments in France