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About Le messager. [volume] (Bringier, Paroisse Saint-Jacques, Louisiane) 1846-1860
Bringier, Paroisse Saint-Jacques, Louisiane (1846-1860)

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Title:
Le messager. [volume] : (Bringier, Paroisse Saint-Jacques, Louisiane) 1846-1860
Alternative Titles:
  • Messenger
Place of publication:
Bringier, Paroisse Saint-Jacques, Louisiane
Geographic coverage:
  • Bringier, Saint James, Louisiana  |  View more titles from this: City County, State
  • None, Saint John the Baptist, Louisiana  |  View more titles from this: City County, State
Publisher:
C.A. Pieron
Dates of publication:
1846-1860
Description:
  • Began with July 24, 1846 issue?; ceased in 1860?
Frequency:
Weekly
Language:
  • English
  • French
Subjects:
  • Bringier (La.)--Newspapers.
  • Louisiana--Saint James Parish.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01208548
  • Louisiana--Saint John the Baptist Parish.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01209571
  • Saint James Parish (La.)--Newspapers.
  • Saint John the Baptist Parish (La.)--Newspapers.
Notes:
  • "Organe des paroisses Saint-Jacques et Saint Jean-Baptiste."
  • Archived issues are available in digital format from the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 20 (4 dec. 1846).
  • In French and English.
  • Latest issue consulted: Vol. 8, no. 41 (vendredi, 26 aôut 1853) (surrogate).
LCCN:
sn 84020177
OCLC:
10443742
ISSN:
1053-5144
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Le Messager

The French-language newspaper Le Messager was founded in July 1846 in the town of Bringier in St. James Parish, Louisiana, an area then known for its prosperous sugar plantations. Its first editor was Charles A. Pieron, formerly associated with the Sentinel in Lafayette (a suburb of Jefferson Parish annexed by New Orleans in 1854), the American Republican in New Orleans, and the Express in Carrollton. By the early 1850s, Charles Moroy and Auguste Lagardere, both natives of France, were editing Le Messager.

The four-page weekly carried miscellaneous local, national, and international news. The recently admitted states of California and Texas received much attention, as did the Crimean War in Russia. Judicial announcements, notices of public sales, advertisements for local businesses, and the minutes of the police jury (the governing body of the parish) occupied a third or more of each issue. The paper’s fiction section was typically pirated from French novels, but works by Louisiana writers were occasionally printed, such as Ernest Le Gendre’s Deux Parisiens en Louisiane (Two Parisians in Louisiana), a comedy in two acts. Politically, Le Messager was affiliated with the Whig Party, and in the mid-1850s it commented on nativist sentiment in Louisiana.

The last known extant issue of Le Messager dates from August 1860.

Provided by: Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, LA