French-Language Newspapers
Name Index to French Language Newspapers of St. Louis, Missouri
The index lists personal names found in two French-language newspapers on microfilm in the History and Genealogy Department:
“Le Patriote” (The Patriot) was published in the 1870s and 1880s for the French-language population of “The West” and later for immigrants from Alsace-Lorraine in St. Louis, Missouri. Only issues from 1878, 1884, 1886, and 1887 survive.
“La Revue de l’Ouest” (The Review of the West) was a French-language newspaper published in 1854, and possibly other years, in St. Louis, Missouri. However the only existing copies that have been found are for 1854. This index lists names in the St. Louis news columns for 1854, the only year for which issues exist.
St. Louis French-Language Newspapers
Le Télégraphe, Journal de l’Occident
- Dates of publication: 1840(?) – ?
- Frequency of publication: twice weekly, Wednesdays and Saturdays
- Price: $6 per year; $3 for six months, payable in advance
- Location/address: Chestnut, first door on the right below Main
- Principal: unknown
- Extant issues: 11, 15, 25 and 29 April 1840
- Location of extant issues:
11 and 29 April: Wisconsin Historical Society; 15 April: New York Public Library; 25 April: Library of Congress (print copy available at in the History and Genealogy Department).
Le Courier de St. Louis
- Dates of publication: June 1850 – ?
- Frequency of publication: twice weekly
- Price: unknown
- Location/address: unknown
- Principal: E. Ferrance, editor
- Extant issues: unknown
- Location of extant issues: unknown
La Revue de l’Ouest
(name changed to La Tribune Française in 1867; John Wolf, proprietor)
- Dates of publication: 7 January 1854 – 1866; 1867 – ?
- Frequency of publication: Weekly
- Price: $2.50 per year; $1.25 for six months; 65¢ for three months; 5¢ per issue
- Location/address: 1854, corner of 2nd and Market; 1866, 42 Market Street
- Principal: Louis R. Cortambert, editor; Nicolas N. DeMenil, managing editor
- Extant issues: 1854; 1862 – September 1865
- Location of extant issues: 1854: St. Louis County Library, History and Genealogy Department (microfilm)
La Revue Icarienne
- Dates of publication:
- Frequency of publication: twice monthly
- Price: unknown
- Location/address: unknown
- Principal: unknown
- Extant issues: 15 October 1858; 1857-’59, #1-68 (missing #22, 32, 44-66)
- Location of extant issues:
1857-’59, #1-68 (missing #22, 32, 55-66): Baxter-Snyder Center for Icarian Studies, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
Le Patriote (et le Phare des Lacs)
- Dates of publication: October 1877 – 1887
- Frequency of publication: weekly
- Price: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for six months; 50¢ for three months; 5¢ per issue.
- Location/address: 1878, 206 Olive; 1884, 207 N. 4th; 1887, 213-215 Locust
- Principal: Ireneus D. Foulon, editor; Louis C. Lavat, printer
- Extant issues: 1878; 1884; 28 May 1885-’87
- Location of extant issues:
28 May 1885-’86: Iowa Historical Society; 1878 and 1886-’87: St. Louis Public Library; 1878, 1884, 1886 and 1887 (missing issues) (microfilm): St. Louis County Library, History and Genealogy Department