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Le Peuple (, The People) was a Socialism daily newspaper published in Brussels, Belgium. Publication started on 13 December 1885 and ended in March 1998. Note de Documentation of the Institut Émile Vandervelde, chapter Le Peuple Société d'Edition du Peuple (SODEPE), section Biographie / historique
The Le Peuple brand was bought in October 2010 by Mischaël Modrikamen, president of the Belgian People's Party, to become a right-wing online newspaper, as well as a printed bimonthly. Mischael Modrikamen a lancé sa version du journal "Le Peuple" in Belgian magazine Le Vif Mischaël Modrikamen relance la version numérique du journal "Le peuple" on the website of the national radio company RTBF
The Le Peuple building on was constructed in 1905, in Art Nouveau style.Aubry, Françoise, Jos Vandenbreeden, and France Vanlaethem. Art nouveau, art déco & modernisme. Bruxelles: Racine, 2006. pp. 60, 399 The architect of the building was Richard Pringiers, a student of Victor Horta.Service de Recherches Historiques et Folkloriques du Brabant (BRUSSELS). Le Folklore Brabançon. p. 145
As of the mid-1930s, Arthur Wauthers was the director of the newspaper. At the time Le Peuple had six different editions. Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 506 From 1933 to 1935 Le Peuple published a large series of articles by Henri de Man on his 'plannist' ideas.Sternhell, Zeev. Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. pp. 350–351
Under the Second World War, when the socialist movement in Belgium was forced underground, Le Peuple continued to be issued as a clandestine publication.Mik̲man, Dān. Belgium and the Holocaust: Jews, Belgians, Germans. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998. p. 277State, Paul F. Historical Dictionary of Brussels. Lanham, Md. u.a.: Scarecrow Press, 2004. p. 256 It was distributed across Belgium. Its chief foreign editor at the time was Victor Larock.Lipgens, Walter, and Wilfried Loth. Documents on the History of European Integration. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1985. pp. 232, 239
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.Back, Harry. Polec: Dictionary of Politics and Economics. Dictionnaire De Politique Et D'economie. Lexikon Fur Politik Und Wirtschaft. Berlin: Gruyter, 1967. p. 495 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.Kelly, Mary. The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Research Group : the Euromedia Handbook. London u.a.: Sage Publ, 2004. p. 19 Publication ended in March 1998 following financial problems.
On 26 March 2013, after winning his legal dispute against the former journalists, Mischaël Modrikamen officially launched the new online version of Le Peuple. It is published every day at 11am and includes a few articles selected from partner websites (such as Atlantico), as well as a few proprietary articles written by volunteers. LAUNCHING OF “LE PEUPLE”, A NEW BELGIAN NEWSPAPER BrusselsDiplomatic, 26 March 2013 In 2014, Luc Rivet, a former journalist at Belgian's national broadcast company RTBF, became its editor-in-chief. Luc Rivet devient rédacteur en chef du "Peuple" He resigns from this position in September 2017
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