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[...] The combination of these two titles, taken yesterday, in the sheet of Viscount Alain - Francisque will have struck all the people of Algiers who remember. 'L'Echo' was not shocked by it: having, at the time of Vichy, advocated collaboration with the 'murderers of North African prisoners', it obviously finds it completely natural 'the contribution' of these to 'the Atlantic defense . Here, Alger Républicain takes a stand against the front page of the newspaper L'Echo d'Alger, known to be a French daily existing since 1912 in Algeria. [...]
[...] The 8 May 1945 in Algeria: French discourses on the massacres of Sétif, Kherrata and Guelma. Harmattan, p.44 Boualem Khalfa, Henri Alleg and Abdelhamid Benzine, The Great Adventure ofAlger republican, Paris, Messidor, 1987 KHALFA Boualem [Dictionnaire Algérie] - Maitron. (s. d.). https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article157337 Santos-Sainz Maria Albert Camus, journalist. Reporter in Algiers, editorialist in Paris, preface by Edwy Plenel, Rennes, Apogée, 2019 Zessin, P. (2011). Press and 'indigenous' journalists in colonial Algeria (1890s-1950s). [...]
[...] And it will lose part of its European readership. This notable increase in Muslims in its readership and editorial staff leads to the appointment of the first Muslim, Boualam Khalfa, as editor-in-chief in 1947 and a change in the newspaper's position, less eurocentric. In a more assertive way, the newspaper denounces the evils of French colonization, arbitrariness, and repression by force.14. As mentioned, in the introduction, Alger Républicain, which was created in the will to bring Europeans and Muslims closer, in an idea of 'transcommunautaire' journalism15, also develops its presence in Algeria, in the territories. [...]
[...] Thus, new historical research on this subject could further detail the impacts of these two newspapers on the assertion of Algerian nationalism by showing the multiple dynamics at work in Algeria and its impact on the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. It would be necessary to go further than the work of Amrani, Boualem or Zessin on the subject. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France had undertaken to dissect this French press on its Gallica site in recent years, without producing all the ad hoc historical analysis. References Amrani, M. (2010). [...]
[...] In this article, we look at the contributions of these two newspapers in the historical context of the time, and consider the avenues to be explored to deepen our knowledge of the subject. Keywords: Algerian nationalism, anti-colonialist press, socialism/communism in Algeria Introduction 8 May 1945: End of the Second World War. For Algeria, this day marks a fateful day. Massacres were committed, notably 'in Sétif, Guelma, Héliopolis and at Kherratta, by the French colonial army, reinforced for the occasion by the Senegalese tirailleurs as well as the Moroccan tabors and supported by the militias formed essentially of settlers'1. [...]
