La Liberté (France) Explained

La Liberté was a French Legitimist newspaper created in July 1865 by Charles-François-Xavier Müller and sold in 1866 to Émile de Girardin. Its last issue was published in 1940.^[1]

Editors

• 1866-1870 : Émile de Girardin ;
• 1870-1876 : Léonce Détroyat ;
• 1876-1889 : Louis Gal ;
• 1893-1898 : Jules Franck ;
• 1898-1911 : Georges Berthoulat ;
• 1922-1933 : Camille Aymard ;
• 1934-1936 : Désiré Ferry ;
• 1937-1940 : Jacques Doriot.

Notes and References

1. David Wingeate Pike France Divided: The French and the Civil War in Spain 2011 - 184519490X- Page 288 "But its press run was mediocre.46* More impressive was Jacques Doriot, who had broken with the Communists in 1934 47* and founded, on 26 June 1936, the Parti Populaire Francais (PPF), recruiting followers from both extremes... and on 24 May, with the help of a former minister, Désiré Ferry, he took over the evening journal La Liberté, up to then in the hands of Andre Tardieu, the founder of the republican centre, a close friend of Clemenceau, and a former prime minister."