La Libre Parole
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| Owner(s) | Édouard Drumont |
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| Language | French |
La Libre Parole or La Libre Parole illustrée (French; The Free Word) was a French antisemitic political newspaper (1892, in Paris – June 1924) founded in 1892 by the journalist and polemicist Édouard Drumont.
Claiming to adhere to theses close to socialism, La Libre Parole is mainly known for its denunciation of various scandals, including the Panama scandal, which owes its name to the publication of a file about it in Drumont's newspaper.
With the emergence of the Dreyfus affair, La Libre Parole enjoyed considerable success, becoming the principal organ for Parisian antisemitism. At the same time, La Libre Parole advocated a virulent anti-capitalism due to the link perceived by Drumont and his collaborators between Jews and capitalism.
Drumont left the management of the newspaper in 1898 when he made his entry in politics (elected as deputy of Algiers until 1902). Around 1908, wishing to sell La Libre Parole to Léon Daudet, Drumont tried to merge the newspaper with L'Action française, but this project failed.
Starting in 1910, the newspaper was published by ultraconservative Catholics and never regained the level of success it had enjoyed with the belligerent style of Drumont. Gaston Méry was one of its editors in chief. In January 1919, he published a statement by the Marquis de l'Estourbeillon in favour of the teaching of Breton in school.
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