Le Peuple

Le Peuple (literally, The People) was a French language daily newspaper from Brussels, Belgium, which started publication on 13 December 1885. Le Peuple was the central organ of the Belgian Labour Party.State, Paul F. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LErne3-05qoC&pg=PA247 Historical Dictionary of Brussels]. Lanham, Md. [u.a.]: Scarecrow Press, 2004. p. 247 Jean Volders was the founding editor-in-chief of the newspaper.Lane, A. Thomas. [https://books.google.com/books?id=H3vjdU-v4isC&pg=PA1012 Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders 2. M - Z]. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press, 1995. p. 1012 Prominent contributors to the newspaper included Emile Vandervelde, Camille Huysmans, Louis Bertrand, J. Wauters, I. Delvigne and Louis de Brouckère.Gankin, Olga Hess, and Harold H. Fisher. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SDCsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA762 The Bolsheviks and the World War]. S.l: s.n.], 1940. p. 762 As of 1909, the newspaper was estimated to have a daily circulation of 106,000.[https://books.google.com/books?id=xhEUAAAAIAAJ The Reformers' Year Book]. London: Clarion, 1909. p. 157

The Le Peuple building on {{Interlanguage link multi|rue des Sables|fr}} was constructed in 1905, in Art Nouveau style.Aubry, Françoise, Jos Vandenbreeden, and France Vanlaethem. [https://books.google.com/books?id=l_zC8mumIq0C&pg=PA399 Art nouveau, art déco & modernisme]. Bruxelles: Racine, 2006. pp. 60, 399 The architect of the building was Richard Pringiers, a student of Victor Horta.Service de Recherches Historiques et Folkloriques du Brabant (BRUSSELS). [https://books.google.com/books?id=um3wAAAAMAAJ Le Folklore Brabançon]. p. 145

As of the mid-1930s, Arthur Wauthers was the director of the newspaper. At the time Le Peuple had six different editions.[https://books.google.com/books?id=IlnQAAAAMAAJ Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier]. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 506 From 1933 to 1935 Le Peuple published a large series of articles by Henri de Man on his 'plannist' ideas.Sternhell, Zeev. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ccgIu6oYkREC&pg=PA350 Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France]. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. pp. 350–351

Under the Second World War, when the socialist movement in Belgium was forced underground, Le Peuple continued to be issued as a clandestine publication.Mik̲man, Dān. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Gpk7P_mMFyUC&pg=PA277 Belgium and the Holocaust: Jews, Belgians, Germans]. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998. p. 277State, Paul F. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LErne3-05qoC&pg=PA256 Historical Dictionary of Brussels]. Lanham, Md. [u.a.]: Scarecrow Press, 2004. p. 256 It was distributed across Belgium. Its chief foreign editor at the time was Victor Larock.Lipgens, Walter, and Wilfried Loth. [https://books.google.com/books?id=X3TsVCAt9F4C&pg=PA239 Documents on the History of European Integration]. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1985. pp. 232, 239

In the post-war era Le Peuple was the organ of the Belgian Socialist Party. As of the 1960s, it had a circulation of around 110,000.Back, Harry. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vT5agE7b_CsC&pg=PA495 Polec: Dictionary of Politics and Economics. Dictionnaire De Politique Et D'economie. Lexikon Fur Politik Und Wirtschaft]. Berlin: Gruyter, 1967. p. 495 In 1997 the then loss-making Le Peuple was taken over by the Rossel media group (along with two other socialist dailies, Le Journal de Charleroi and La Wallonie). In the following year these three dailies were merged into Le Matin, but Rossel withdrew from the cooperation.Kelly, Mary. [https://books.google.com/books?id=HYCVxSFNNpkC&pg=PA19 The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Research Group : the Euromedia Handbook]. London [u.a.]: Sage Publ, 2004. p. 19 Publication ended in March 1998 following financial problems.

In October 2010, Mischaël Modrikamen, president of the Belgian People's Party, a national liberal and right-wing populist party, reacquired the brand Le Peuple with the intent of publishing a right-wing online newspaper as well as a printed bimonthly. Immediately after this announcement a group of former journalists of the socialist daily tried to block his project by disputing his brand registration. On 13 December he published a first paper issue, printed in 125,000 copies and distributed freely in Brussels and in Wallonia.

On 26 March 2013, after winning his legal dispute against the former journalists, Mischaël Modrikamen officially launched the new online version of Le Peuple. It is published every day at 11am and includes a few articles selected from partner websites (such as Atlantico), as well as a few proprietary articles written by volunteers.[http://brusselsdiplomatic.com/2013/03/26/launching-of-le-peuple-a-new-belgian-newspaper/ LAUNCHING OF “LE PEUPLE”, A NEW BELGIAN NEWSPAPER] BrusselsDiplomatic, 26 March 2013 In 2014, Luc Rivet, a former journalist at Belgian's national broadcast company RTBF, became its editor-in-chief.[http://www.levif.be/actualite/belgique/luc-rivet-devient-redacteur-en-chef-du-peuple/article-normal-260081.html Luc Rivet devient rédacteur en chef du "Peuple"] He resigns from this position in September 2017

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