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Le Cri du Peuple

French newspaper

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Le Cri du Peuple was a prominent French socialist newspaper founded in 1871 by Jules Vallès. Vallès, a socialist journalist and novelist, was a key figure in left-wing politics and a member of the Commune of Paris of 1871. The newspaper became one of France's leading socialist publications, reflecting Vallès's sympathetic descriptions of the poor and his critiques of the bourgeoisie.1

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