Le Peuple (literally,
The People) was a
French language daily newspaper from
Brussels,
Belgium, which started publication on 13 December 1885. Jean Volders was the founding editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Prominent contributors to the newspaper included
Emile Vandervelde,
Camille Huysmans,
Louis Bertrand, J. Wauters, I. Delvigne and
Louis de Brouckère. As of 1909, the newspaper was estimated to have a daily circulation of 106,000. The
Le Peuple building on '''' was constructed in 1905, in
Art Nouveau style. The architect of the building was Richard Pringiers, a student of
Victor Horta. As of the mid-1930s, Arthur Wauthers was the director of the newspaper. At the time
Le Peuple had six different editions. From 1933 to 1935
Le Peuple published a large series of articles by
Henri de Man on his 'plannist' ideas. Under the
Second World War, when the socialist movement in Belgium was forced underground,
Le Peuple continued to be issued as a clandestine publication. In the post-war era
Le Peuple was the organ of the
Belgian Socialist Party. As of the 1960s, it had a circulation of around 110,000. In 1997 the then loss-making
Le Peuple was taken over by the
Rossel media group (along with two other socialist dailies,
Le Journal de Charleroi and
La Wallonie). In the following year these three dailies were merged into
Le Matin, but Rossel withdrew from the cooperation. Publication ended in March 1998 following financial problems. ==Right-wing newspaper (2010–)==