La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne et maritime ('Workers', Peasants' and Sailors' Brittany') was a weekly newspaper published 1935–1950 in Brittany, France. It was a regional organ of the French Communist Party in Brittany.French National Library. La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne, maritimeLeguen, Marcel. Deux siècles de presse écrite en Bretagne. [Spézet]: Coop Breizh, 2002. p. 111
The newspaper was launched on October 5, 1935, by Auguste Havez.Feyel, Gilles. La distribution et la diffusion de la presse, du XVIIIe siècle au IIIe millénaire. Paris: Panthéon-Assas, 2002. p. 289Gotovitch, José, and Aldo Agosti. Komintern: l'histoire et les hommes: dictionnaire biographique de l'Internationale communiste en France, en Belgique, au Luxembourg, en Suisse et à Moscou (1919-1943). Paris: Ed. de l'Atelier, Ed. Ouvrières, 2001. p. 454 The launching of the new publication was helped by the communist parliamentarian Alain Signor.French National Assembly. Alain SIGNOR (1905 - 1970) The newspaper was initially published from Douarnenez. It replaced the publication La République ouvrière et paysanne ('The Workers' and Peasants' Republic').Bougeard, Christian. La Bretagne d'une guerre à l'autre: (1914-1945). [Paris]: Gisserot, 1999. p. 71 La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne et maritime was distributed throughout Finistère, Côtes-du-Nord and a section of Morbihan.
La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne et maritime was banned, along with all other communist newspapers, by the Daladier government in 1939. Around March/April 1941 it re-appeared as a clandestine publication in Brest, no longer as a weekly.Sainclivier, Jacqueline. La Bretagne dans la guerre: 1939-1945. Rennes: Ed. Ouest-France [u.a.], 1994. p. 140 It was distributed in Rennes and Nantes. A handful of copies of the newspaper from this period are archived at the French National Library.Sainclivier, Jacqueline. La résistance en Ille-&-Vilaine, 1940-1944. [Rennes]: PUR, Presses universitaires Rennes, 1993. p. 11
In the post-war era, La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne et maritime was the organ of the Finistère Federation of the Communist Party.Historiens et géographes, Eds. 356–357. Association des professeurs d'histoire et géographie., 1997. p. 189 The newspaper was closed down in June 1950.
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External links La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne et maritime archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne et maritime, Loire-Inférieure special edition archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France La Bretagne ouvrière, paysanne et maritime archives at the International Institute for Social History