''Le Travailleur alpin'' ("The Alpine Worker") was a

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newspaper in

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. ''Le Travailleur alpin'' had appeared as the

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regional organ of the

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during the

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. It began to appear as an open daily newspaper published from

Grenoble Grenoble ( ; ; or ; or ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Isère Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region ...

on August 23, 1944, the same day that U.S. forces entered Grenoble. Louis Maisonnat was the editor of ''Le Travailleur alpin''.
Les Communistes Et la Lutte Pour la Paix
', ''Communisme'', p. 15. ''Le Travailleur alpin'' was closed down by the Communist Party in 1948, in order to save the pro-communist newspaper ''Allobroges'' instead. Some staff, who had worked for both newspapers, were able to retain their employments. The Communist Party organized a ''Fête du Travailleur alpin'' press festival annually, a tradition initiated in 1929 and that continued after the end of the publication of the daily newspaper.https://www.humanite.fr/2003-06-21_Politique_-Balises-Le-Travailleur-alpin

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