L'affaire Finaly au regard de la presse marseillaise

Abstract

The author goes into three main dailies of Marseille : Le Provencal, a socialist paper, Le Meridional-La France de Marseille, of right-wing tendencies, La Marseillaise, communist. She looks into the number of articles, the chosen lay-out and the contents of these articles. Each one of these papers of course has its own way to deal with the case. The communist paper does not take much interest in it ; Le Provencal is in line with the republican and the secularist tendency ; the local impact of the affair has a great resonance in Le Meridional which defends tooth and nail the clergymen of Marseille who were imprisoned because the Finaly childred stayed, under a false name, in a catholic boarding-school, Notre-Dame de la Viste, in Marseille, before being illegally transferred to Bayonne. A few Jews of Marseille, who actively supported Jules Isaac and Rabi, endeavored to arouse meetings, but the Jews in Marseille as a whole seemed unconcerned. The turmoil collapsed as soon as the children were returned.