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[004533] [French Radical Press] A Collection of French Left Wing and Radical Newspapers. Various: Various, First Edition. Various. Unbound. Newspapers. Good. A collection of French (and one Belgian) radical newspapers, numbering approximately sixty issues of twenty-one different titles, including communist, socialist, anti-clerical, free thought, and anti-war titles, mainly from the 1920’s, but some earlier

Generally in good order, though with the usual problems of newspapers of the age, some browning, chipping and tearing, most with central folds, a few of which are a little weak, but generally in decent order

The titles are Le Voix du Retraite (1921); La Libre Pensee Internationale, nine copies, (1917-19); Le Populaire de Paris, four copies, (1918); l’ere nuvelle – Organe de l’entente des Gauches, two copies (1923); l’Oeuvre, two copies (1920-23); La Verite, two copies, (1917-30); La Vague – Pacifiste, Socialiste, Feministe, three copies (1925-27); Le Mutile, (1926); La Feuille Commune, (1919); L’Aurore, (1924); Le Cri Populaire, (1926); Le Travailleur, (1928); L’Action, (1906); Le Combattant – Organe d’Action et de Defense des Victimes de la Guerre, (1919); Le Drapeau Rouge, (1925); La Lanterne, (1906); La Carmagnole, (1922); Le Raffut, (1923); La France Libre – Journal Socialiste, (1918); L’Humanite, eighteen copies, (1906-1926); and L’Homme Enchaine, fourteen copies, (1914-15)

An interesting overview of the newspapers covering the long march of the French left