Revue (La)

Notes et remarques

Un journal lui aussi nommé La Revue était publiée simultanément à Augusta (Maine), mais avec un texte différent.

Voici un extrait de la fiche rédigée par la Maine State Library et affichée dans la notice de la LOC (mentionnée plus haut) : « La Revue was a short-lived French-language Sunday newspaper published both in Augusta and Waterville, Maine. According to a 1910 article published in Augusta’s Daily Kennebec Journal, La Revue was supposed to begin publication in December 1910, but the first Augusta issue did not appear until January or February 1911; over 1,500 issues were printed and distributed locally around Augusta and Winthrop. [...].

The papers were a short four-page spread intended for local French-Canadian immigrants and Franco-Americans to read French stories, learn about local merchants, see notices for local society meetings, and encounter other matters of relevance to their communities. Pages also contained writings that were morally or religiously instructive, including, for example, an essay on "sincerity" and "character," or a brief writing on Roman Catholic Saint Joan of Arc. Some scholars suspect that, like Le Courrier du Maine, La Revue was created in support of the Maine Roman Catholic Church leadership, and in opposition to newspapers like Lewiston’s Le Messager and Biddeford’s La Justice that criticized Maine’s Catholic bishops for their control over Franco-American parishes and their apparent desire to anglicize Maine’s French-speaking Catholics. La Revue included very little traditional daily news. From the few remaining copies, it appears both Augusta and Waterville papers shared largely the same literary content, except for the business advertisements and local notices that were particular to merchants in their cities. [...] »