''Le Peuple'' (, ''The People'') was a

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published in

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, Belgium. Publication started on 13 December 1885 and ended in March 1998.Note de Documentation
of the ''Institut

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'', chapter ''Le Peuple''Société d'Edition du Peuple (SODEPE)
section ''Biographie / historique'' The ''Le Peuple''

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was bought in October 2010 by

Mischaël Modrikamen Mischaël Modrikamen (born 22 February 1966) is a Belgian right-wing politician and lawyer. He is the co-founder and leader of the People's Party. He is the vice-president of the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) and the publisher ...

, president of the Belgian People's Party, to become a

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, as well as a printed bimonthly.Mischael Modrikamen a lancé sa version du journal "Le Peuple"
in Belgian magazine

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Mischaël Modrikamen relance la version numérique du journal "Le peuple"
on the website of the national radio company

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Socialist newspaper (1885–1998)

''Le Peuple'' (literally, ''The People'') was a

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daily newspaper from

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, which started publication on 13 December 1885. ''Le Peuple'' was the central organ of the

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. Jean Volders was the founding editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Prominent contributors to the newspaper included

Emile Vandervelde Emile Vandervelde (25 January 1866 – 27 December 1938) was a Belgium, Belgian socialist politician. Nicknamed "the boss" (''le patron''), Vandervelde was a leading figure in the Belgian Labour Party (POB–BWP) and in international socialism. C ...

Camille Huysmans Jean Joseph Camille Huysmans (born as Camiel Hansen 26 May 1871 – 25 February 1968) was a Belgian people, Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1946 to 1947. Biography He studied German philology at the Universit ...

, Louis Bertrand, J. Wauters, I. Delvigne and Louis de Brouckère. As of 1909, the newspaper was estimated to have a daily circulation of 106,000. The ''Le Peuple'' building on ' was constructed in 1905, in

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style. The architect of the building was Richard Pringiers, a student of

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. As of the mid-1930s, Arthur Wauthers was the director of the newspaper. At the time ''Le Peuple'' had six different editions.
Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier
'. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 506 From 1933 to 1935 ''Le Peuple'' published a large series of articles by Henri de Man on his 'plannist' ideas. Under the

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, when the socialist movement in Belgium was forced underground, ''Le Peuple'' continued to be issued as a clandestine publication. It was distributed across Belgium. Its chief foreign editor at the time was

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.Lipgens, Walter, and Wilfried Loth.
Documents on the History of European Integration
'. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1985. pp. 232, 239 In the post-war era ''Le Peuple'' was the organ of the

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. As of the 1960s, it had a circulation of around 110,000. In 1997 the then loss-making ''Le Peuple'' was taken over by the Rossel media group (along with two other socialist dailies, ''Le Journal de Charleroi'' and ''La Wallonie''). In the following year these three dailies were merged into '' Le Matin'', but Rossel withdrew from the cooperation. Publication ended in March 1998 following financial problems.

Right-wing newspaper (2010–)

In October 2010,

, president of the Belgian People's Party, a

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and

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party, reacquired the

''Le Peuple'' with the intent of publishing a

as well as a printed bimonthly. Immediately after this announcement a group of former journalists of the socialist daily tried to block his project by disputing his brand registration. On 13 December he published a first paper issue, printed in 125,000 copies and distributed freely in

and in

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. On 26 March 2013, after winning his legal dispute against the former journalists, Mischaël Modrikamen officially launched the new online version of ''Le Peuple''. It is published every day at 11am and includes a few articles selected from partner websites (such as ''

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''), as well as a few proprietary articles written by volunteers.LAUNCHING OF “LE PEUPLE”, A NEW BELGIAN NEWSPAPER
BrusselsDiplomatic, 26 March 2013 In 2014, Luc Rivet, a former journalist at Belgian's national broadcast company

, became its

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.Luc Rivet devient rédacteur en chef du "Peuple"
/ref> He resigns from this position in September 2017

References

External links

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