Lot n° 199
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COLLECTIVE. Time. Journal. Nos. 1 January... - Lot 199 - Lucien Paris
COLLECTIVE. Time. Journal. Nos. 1 January 1900 to 31 December 1918. 56 broadsheet volumes, or 6,931 issues bound, good condition).
Missing the volume from January 1918 to April 31, 1918.
Le Temps, the ancestor of Le Monde, was founded in Paris in 1861 at 10, rue du Faubourg-Montmartre (until December 1884, then 5, rue des Italiens) by Auguste Nefftzer, a French journalist who ran it. Initially inspired by the liberal philosophy with strong Protestant tendencies of its founder, the newspaper had a difficult start and had to be financially supported by Alsatian industrialists, friends of Nefftzer.
But, serious and very well produced, Le Temps saw its circulation grow from barely 3,000 copies in 1861 to 11,000 copies in 1869
and 22,000 copies in 1880, becoming the most important newspaper of the Third Republic and establishing itself as the newspaper of reference for the elite. From 1867 to 1890, the Duc d'Aumale was one of the main shareholders of the newspaper.
From 1870 onwards, the newspaper practised anonymity in its political writing, which for a long time allowed it to be independent
and to be an authority against its major competitors. The information is considered quality, serious and objective, before being classified rather
Nefftzer sold the paper to Adrien Hébrard in 1873, then to the conservative republicans. It reached 30,000 copies
in 1914.
Embodying the rise of the bourgeoisie, a new social class that was at once republican, moderate and liberal, Le Temps' first virtue was prudence. It is very nuanced on the Dreyfus affair. It was then hostile to the Combes government, which it judged too anticlerical, before the separation of the Churches and the State. He was very patriotic during the 1914-1918 war. He fights the project of income tax defended in particular by the deputy Jean Jaurès.
After the Second World War, the newspaper is ruined by the ordinance of September 30, 1944 on the titles having appeared under the occupation
of France by Germany. Its premises were requisitioned and its equipment seized. Le Monde, which began publishing in 1944
will be the beneficiary of this confiscation: the typography and format will remain for a long time inherited from Le Temps.
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