Le Messager (Maine) Explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. The Library of Congress