La Justice

newspaper by Clemenceau

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La Justice was a French daily newspaper founded in 1880 by Georges Clemenceau, a prominent statesman and journalist of the French Third Republic. The newspaper served as the principal organ for the Radical Party in Paris. Clemenceau used La Justice as a platform to express his political views and critique various political factions, including conservatives and other republicans.1

The paper was instrumental in his political career, particularly during the Dreyfus affair, where Clemenceau's strong support for Dreyfus, articulated in his newspapers, helped to revive his public standing. While Le Journal des Débats was another influential Parisian newspaper, it focused on reporting debates and had a different editorial stance and history.12

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Georges Clemenceau
Early political career
…1880 he started his newspaper, La Justice, which became the principal organ of the Radicals in Paris; from that time onward, throughout the presidency (1879–87) of Jules Grévy, he rapidly built up his reputation as a political critic of republicans and radicals as well as of conservatives and as a…
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…1880 he started his newspaper, La Justice, which became the principal organ of the Radicals in Paris; from that time onward, throughout the presidency (1879–87) of Jules Grévy, he rapidly built up his reputation as a political critic of republicans and radicals as well as of conservatives and as a…
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