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St. Louis Newspapers

French-Language Newspapers of St. Louis

Name Index to French Language Newspapers of St. Louis, Missouri

This index lists personal names found in two French-language newspapers on microfilm in the History and Genealogy Department:

 

  • “Le Patriote” (The Patriot) was published in the 1870s and 1880s for the French-language population of “The West” and later for immigrants from Alsace-Lorraine in St. Louis, Missouri. Only issues from 1878, 1884, 1886, and 1887 survive.

 

 

 

  • “La Revue de l’Ouest” (The Review of the West) was a French-language newspaper published in 1854, and possibly other years, in St. Louis, Missouri. However the only existing copies that have been found are for 1854. This index lists names in the St. Louis news columns for 1854, the only year for which issues exist.

St. Louis French-Language Newspapers

I.  Le Télégraphe, Journal de l’Occident

           A. Dates of publication: 1840(?) – ?

            B. Frequency of publication: twice weekly, Wednesdays and Saturdays

            C. Price: $6 per year; $3 for six months, payable in advance

            D. Location/address: Chestnut, first door on the right below Main

            E. Principal: unknown

            F. Extant issues: 11, 15, 25 and 29 April 1840

            G. Location of extant issues: 11 and 29 April: Wisconsin Historical Society; 15     April: New York Public Library; 25 April: Library of Congress (print copy    available at St. Louis County Library, History and Genealogy Department).

 

II.  Le Courier de St. Louis

            A. Dates of publication: June 1850 – ?

            B. Frequency of publication: twice weekly

            C. Price: unknown

            D. Location/address: unknown

            E. Principal: E. Ferrance, editor

            F. Extant issues: unknown

            G. Location of extant issues: unknown

 

III.  La Revue de l’Ouest (name changed to La Tribune Française in 1867; John Wolf, proprietor) 

            A. Dates of publication: 7 January 1854 – 1866; 1867 – ?

            B. Frequency of publication: Weekly

            C. Price: $2.50 per year; $1.25 for six months; 65¢ for three months; 5¢ per issue.

            D. Location/address: 1854, corner of 2nd and Market; 1866, 42 Market Street

            E. Principal: Louis R. Cortambert, editor; Nicolas N. DeMenil, managing editor

            F. Extant issues: 1854; 1862 – September 1865

            G. Location of extant issues: 1854: St. Louis County Library, History and Genealogy Department (microfilm)

 

IV.   Le Moniteur de l’Ouest

            A. Dates of publication: April 1856 – ?

            B. Frequency of publication: weekly

            C. Price: unknown

            D. Location/address: unknown

            E. Principal: E. Delane Maryat, editor

            F. Extant issues: unknown

            G. Location of extant issues: unknown

 

V.  La Revue Icarienne 

            A. Dates of publication:

            B. Frequency of publication: twice monthly

            C. Price: unknown

            D. Location/address: unknown

            E. Principal: unknown

            F. Extant issues: 15 October 1858; 1857-’59, #1-68 (missing #22, 32, 44-66)

            G. Location of extant issues: 1857-’59, #1-68 (missing #22, 32, 55-66): Baxter-     Snyder Center for Icarian Studies, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL

 

VI.  Le Courier de St. Louis

            A. Dates of publication: 1866 (few months)

            B. Frequency of publication: weekly

            C. Price: unknown

            D. Location/address: unknown

            E. Principal: L. Philipon, publisher

            F. Extant issues: unknown

            G. Location of extant issues: unknown

 

VII.  La République

            A. Dates of publication: 9 September 1876 – 6 January 1877

            B. Frequency of publication: weekly

            C. Price: unknown     

            D. Location/address: 520 Pine

            E. Principal: Honorius Beaugrand

            F. Extant issues: unknown

            G. Location of extant issues: unknown

 

VIII.  Le Patriote (et le Phare des Lacs) 

            A. Dates of publication: October 1877 – 1887

            B. Frequency of publication: weekly

            C. Price: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for six months; 50¢ for three months; 5¢ per issue.

            D. Location/address: 1878, 206 Olive; 1884, 207 N. 4th; 1887, 213-215 Locust

            E. Principal: Ireneus D. Foulon, editor; Louis C. Lavat, printer

            F. Extant issues: 1878; 1884; 28 May 1885-’87

            G. Location of extant issues: 28 May 1885-’86: Iowa Historical Society; 1878 and            1886-’87: St. Louis Public Library; 1878, 1884, 1886 and 1887 (missing issues)         (microfilm): St. Louis County Library, History and Genealogy Department

 

IX.  Le Journal Français

            A. Dates of publication: 22 March 1893

            B. Frequency of publication: unknown

            C. Price: unknown

            D. Location/address: unknown

            E. Principal: A. de Vervins, editor

            F. Extant issues: unknown; only 7 issues published

            G. Location of extant issues: unknown

 

Digitization by Newspapers.com

History & Genealogy supplied microfilms for digitization by Newspapers.com:

  • La Patriote 1878-1887 

Bibliography for Researching St. Louis French-language Newspapers

 

Baxter-Snyder Center for Icarian Studies      www.wiu.edu/library/units/archives/collections/icarian.  (Has copies of La Revue  Icarienne, the St. Louis Icarian newspaper.)

Gregory, Winifred, ed.  American Newspapers, 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada.  New York: Kraus, 1937, pp. 372-         373.

Hyde, William and Howard L. Conard, eds.  Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis…    New York: The Southern History Company, 1899, volume 2, pp. 836-837.

Kaser, David.  A Directory of the St. Louis Book and Printing Trades to 1850.  New          York: The New York Public Library, 1961.

La Revue de l’ouest.  St. Louis: Société littéraire française de St. Louis, 1854-. 

Le Patriote (et le phare des lacs).  St. Louis : s.n., 1878-1887.

Morrison, Andrew.  The Industries of Saint Louis…  St. Louis: J. M. Elstner & Co.,          Publishers, 1885, p. 59.

Scharf, J. Thomas.  History of Saint Louis City and County…  Philadelphia: Louis H.        Everts & Co., 1883, p. 953.