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IT PRIDES itself on being France’s mouthpiece of the free-thinking left, an irreverent daily founded in the wake of the 1968 student revolt by Maoist luminaries and Jean-Paul Sartre.
The circulation of all nine French national newspapers is 1.4m, compared with around 12m for Britain’s daily nationals.
It survived two horrific World Wars, the abdication of the last German Kaiser, and decades of the Cold War. Now, the Berlin-based Foreign Press Association has celebrated its 100th birthday in the German capital.
The punning headline is on the way out so the pundits tell us.
