The Gazette de Lausanne was a French-language Swiss newspaper. It was founded in 1798 by Gabriel-Antoine Miéville. Following a period of financial problems, it became editorially closer to and eventually merged into the Journal de Genève in 1991. Their combined paper merged a few years later with the Le Nouveau Quotidien to form Le Temps.
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 Front page of the 26 October 1914 issue of the Gazette de Lausanne. | |
| Founder(s) | Gabriel-Antoine Miéville |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1798 |
| Language | French |
| Ceased publication | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Lausanne |
| Country | Switzerland |
| ISSN | 1010-206X |
| OCLC number | 5426309 |
History
editThe paper was founded as the Peuple vaudois in 1798 by Gabriel-Antoine Miéville, which changed its name in 1804 to the Gazette de Lausanne.[1]
From 1804 to 55, the paper ran several times a week; following 1856 it became a daily newspaper. In the period of 1917 to 1926 it increased its printings to twice a day, which became three a day for a period, before returning to a daily in 1965.[1] It included a supplementary paper run on Saturday, ran by Pierre Béguin and Franck Jotterand, the Gazette littéraire.[1]
The paper encountered financial difficulties throughout the 1960s, and in the 70s began to increasingly collaborate with the Journal de Genève paper. It eventually merged into the Journal de Genève in 1991 to form the Journal de Genève et Gazette de Lausanne.[1] This paper then merged in 1998 with the Le Nouveau Quotidien to form Le Temps.[2]
The paper's digitized archives are available on the Le Temps Archives website.[3]
Organization
editImportant journalists of the paper included:[1]
- Pierre Béguin
- Albert Bonnard
- Gaston Bridel
- Georges Duplain
- Franck Jotterand
- Edgar Junod
- Georges Rigassi
- Edmond Rossier
- Edouard Secretan
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Bollinger, Ernst: Gazette de Lausanne in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 15 August 2005.
- ^ Jost, Cyril (4 February 2011). "The challenges confronting the Swiss press". Ina Global. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ^ Rochat, Yannick; Ehrmann, Maud; Buntinx, Vincent; Bornet, Cyril; Kaplan, Frédéric, eds. (2016). Navigating through 200 years of historical newspapers. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via EPFL InfoScience.
Further reading
edit- Clavien, Alain (1997). Histoire de la Gazette de Lausanne: le temps du colonel, 1874-1917 (in French). Vevey: Editions de l'Aire. ISBN 978-2-88108-467-6.
- Clavien, Alain (2010). Grandeurs et misères de la presse politique: le match, Gazette de Lausanne, Journal de Genève. GRHIC (in French). Lausanne: Antipodes. ISBN 978-2-940146-99-4.
External links
edit- Archives of the Gazette de Lausanne via Le Temps Archives
