Le Travailleur alpin ("The Alpine Worker") was a communist newspaper in France. Le Travailleur alpin had appeared as the Côte-d'Or regional organ of the French Communist Party during the Second World War.[1] It began to appear as an open daily newspaper published from Grenoble on August 23, 1944, the same day that U.S. forces entered Grenoble.[2][3]
Louis Maisonnat was the editor of Le Travailleur alpin.[4]
Le Travailleur alpin was closed down by the Communist Party in 1948, in order to save the pro-communist newspaper Allobroges instead. Some staff, who had worked for both newspapers, were able to retain their employments.[5]
The Communist Party organized a Fête du Travailleur alpin press festival annually, a tradition initiated in 1929 and that continued after the end of the publication of the daily newspaper.[6]
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- ^ Tasca, Angelo, David Bidussa, and Denis Peschanski. La France de Vichy: archives inédit[e]s d'Angelo Tasca. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1996. p. 133.
- ^ Martin, Marc. Médias et journalistes de la République. Histoires, hommes, entreprises. Paris: Odile Jacob, 1997, p. 281.
- ^ Muller, Claude. sentiers de la liberté: Dauphiné, 1939-1945: les témoignages de nombreux résistants. Récits. Romagnat: Ed. de Borée, 2003, p. 302.
- ^ Les Communistes Et la Lutte Pour la Paix, Communisme, p. 15.
- ^ Martin, Marc. Médias et journalistes de la République. Histoires, hommes, entreprises. Paris: Odile Jacob, 1997, p. 305.
- ^ https://www.humanite.fr/2003-06-21_Politique_-Balises-Le-Travailleur-alpin [dead link]