" A bloody day , " The Morning of 31 July 1908.

Morning was a newspaper daily French created in 1883 and died in 1944. Bought by businessman sulfur Maurice Bunau-Varilla , he was one of four major newspapers in the years 1910 and 1920, drawing a million copies before 1914. Its circulation dropped to the 1920s, to reach more than 300,000 copies in the late 1930s, while he turned to the far right, becoming under collaborationist Vichy. He was banned from publication in the Liberation.

At the initiative of U.S. financial group that Chamberlain & Co Matin launched in 1883 modeled on the British daily The Morning News. Project management is entrusted to the French journalist Alfred Edwards ^{The emergence of Maurice Bunau-Varilla}

Implicated in the Panama scandal , Edwards sold the newspaper in 1895 , between the board of the Morning. He became president in 1901. Supported by effective advertising, the tone of catchy articles and development of reports , The Morning continues to see its circulation increase from 100 000 copies in 1900, it reached about 700,000 in 1910 and over one million circa 1914. Heavily dependent on advertising, which provides nearly a third of revenues before 1914 Le Matin was then one of the four largest French newspapers before the war, with Le Petit Journal , Le Petit Parisien and the Journal . It employs 150 journalists, including Colette and Albert in London , and 500 technicians and workers. The success of the Morning is also based on the publication of serials Gaston Leroux , the Ivoi Paul and Michel Zvaco , and the cartoons , including those of the exiled Russian Alex Gard (en).

After the First World War , Le Matin, nationalist and secular , argues Raymond Poincare , President of the Republic from 1913 to 1920 and Chairman of the Council (Conservative) in the 1920s . From mid 1920 to early 1930, the newspaper supported the rapprochement with Germany operated by Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann , particularly under the influence of his boss, Bunau-Varilla, who has been offered by the Germans the opportunity to exploit his "miracle cure", the Synthol . Meanwhile, Jules Sauerwein, foreign affairs journalist and advocate of rapprochement with Germany, was forced to leave the paper .

However, from the 1920s his drawings starts to fall, to reach more than 300,000 copies in the late 1930's . His political line is gradually moving toward the extreme right to be in the inter-war openly anti-parliamentary and anti .

First newspaper to reappear in Paris, even before the signing of the armistice , it immediately becomes collaborationist before disappearing on 17 August 1944 , just days after the death of Bunau-Varilla . The newspaper is banned after the Liberation, then the Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF) decided in 1946 to expropriate all news organizations have published under the Occupation .

References

See also

• The Country of France , published weekly by The Morning during the First World War.
• Alfred Edwards

External link

• Morning Archives from 1882 to 1884 , of the 1885 to 1904 and from 1905 to 1944 in Gallica , the digital library of BnF.
• Presentation of the daily Le Matin by master students of the University of Paris I Panthon-Sorbonne.

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