Le Soir
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Rossel & Cie. S.A |
| Publisher | Rossel |
| Editor | Béatrice Delvaux |
| Founded | 1887 |
| Headquarters |
Rue Royale 100, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium |
| Website | www |
Le Soir (French: [lə swaʁ], "The Evening") is a French language daily Belgian newspaper. Founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel, it was intended as an politically-independent and traditionally Liberal source of news. It is one of the most popular Francophone newspapers in Belgium, competing with La Libre Belgique, and since 2005 has appeared in Berliner format. It is owned by Rossel & Cie, which also owns several Belgian news outlets and the French paper La Voix du Nord.
Le Soir was founded as a free advertising newspaper in 1887. Later it became a paying paper.
When Belgium was occupied during the Second World War, Le Soir continued to be published under German censorship, unlike many Belgian newspapers which went underground. The paper, which became known as "Le Soir Volé" (or "Stolen Le Soir"), was parodied by the resistance group, the Front de l'Indépendance which in 1943 published a satirical pro-Allied edition of the paper, dubbed the "Faux Soir" (or "Fake Soir"), which was mixed with official copies of the paper and distributed to news kiosks in Brussels. The "Stolen Le Soir" was notable for including Hergé's Adventures of Tintin cartoons in serialized form during the war.
The renewed production of the "Free Le Soir", under Lucien Fuss, restarted on 6 September 1944, just days after the Allied Liberation of Brussels. The publisher of the paper is Rossel company.
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