Type | Regional daily newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Centre France group |
Founder(s) | Alexandre Varenne |
Founded | 1919 |
Political alignment | Socialist |
Language | French |
Headquarters | Clermont-Ferrand |
Country | France |
Circulation | 140,752 (as of 2020) |
ISSN | 0767-4007 |
OCLC number | 474205368 |
Website | La Montagne |
La Montagne is a French language regional daily newspaper based in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The title was selected to reflect its alignment with the ideas of the Montagnards of the French Revolution. [1] The paper has been in circulation since 1919.
La Montagne was established as an independent socialist publication by Alexandre Varenne in 1919. [2] [3] [4] He also served as the editor-in-chief of the paper [3] which is headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand. [5]
La Montagne was censored during World War II when France was occupied by the German forces, and the paper was suspended on 27 August 1943. [3] [6] It was relaunched on 15 September 1944 [3] and became the main daily in Auvergne. [1]
The Centre France group is the owner of La Montagne, which also owns other regional dailies and weeklies. [7] The majority shareholder in the company is the Alexander and Margaret Varenne Foundation. [8] La Montagne began to be published in tabloid format in January 2008. [4]
La Montagne sold 246,900 copies in 1990 and 224,000 copies in 1991. [5] The paper sold 209,000 copies in 2000. [9] The circulation of the paper rose to 211,941 copies in 2001 [10] and had a readership of 632,000 the same year. [11] La Montagne sold 206,813 copies in 2002. [10] The paper had a circulation of 204,000 copies during the first quarter of 2006. [12] In the period of 2007-2008 its circulation was 191,000 copies. [13]
Year | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Circulation | 197,424 | 196,108 | 191,927 | 186,233 | 182,600 | 179,862 | 168,759 | 165,390 | 157,392 | 145,385 | 147,735 |