L'Intransigeant

Summary

L'Intransigeant was a French newspaper founded in July 1880 by Henri Rochefort. Initially representing the left-wing opposition, it moved towards the right during the Boulanger affair (Rochefort supported Boulanger) and became a major right-wing newspaper by the 1920s. The newspaper was vehemently anti-Dreyfusard, reflecting Rochefort's positions. In 1906 under the direction of Léon Bailby it reaches a circulation of 400,000 copies. It ceased publication after the French surrender in 1940. After the war it was briefly republished in 1947 under the name L'Intransigeant-Journal de Paris, before merging with Paris-Presse.

L'Intransigeant
Front page from 14 May 1891
TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Henri Rochefort
FoundedJuly 1880 (1880-07)
LanguageFrench
Ceased publication1940

References edit

  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rochefort, Henri" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 426–427.

External links edit

  • Issues of L'intransigeant from 1880 to 1940 viewable on line in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF