La Dépêche marocaine was a daily francophone

Francophone

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 Moroccan

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

 newspaper

Newspaper

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 published in Tangier

Tangier

Tangier, also Tangiers is a city in northern Morocco with a population of about 700,000 . It lies on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel...

. It is considered the oldest published newspaper in Morocco after being founded by Rober-Raynaud in 1905.

In 1951, Le Monde

Le Monde

Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...

journalist Claude Julien

Claude Julien (journalist)

Claude Julien was a French journalist, editor of French newspaper of record Le Monde in 1969 and editor-in-chief then director of Le Monde diplomatique....

 became its editor-in-chief. The newspaper ceased to be published in 1961.

There exist collections of the newspaper in volumes in both the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Bibliothèque nationale de France

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 and the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

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External links

• What do you think of Picasso? - Essay by Jean Tabaud
  Jean Tabaud
  -Early life:Born Jean Gilbert Tabaud on July 5, 1914, in the small town of Saujon, France, on the Southwest Atlantic coast, north of Bordeaux. He was the son of Lucien Tabaud and Ernestine Tabaud Hillairet...
  
  published by La Dépêche marocaine on February 1950