Le Messager | |
Motto: | Le Plus Grand Quotidien de Langue Française aux États-Unis (French) "The Largest French Language Daily in the United States" |
Type: | Weekly newspaper |
Format: | Broadsheet |
Foundation: | 1880 |
Ceased Publication: | 1966 |
Language: | French (New England French) |
Headquarters: | 223 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Maine 04240 United States |
Oclc: | 9449358 |
Le Messager was a French language newspaper, founded in 1880 in Lewiston, Maine. It serving the sizeable Franco-American (Franco-Canadian) population in that city. Le Messager operated from 1880 to 1966. It was a daily newspaper until the mid 1950s when it became a tri-weekly publication. In the early 1960s it adopted a weekly schedule, published every Thursday. It was succeeded by the Nouveau Messager in 1966; but the following year, it closed as well for lack of funding.[1]
The newspaper was operated out of 223 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, which became the home of Lewiston Auburn Magazine in September 2011.