La Liberté (, ) was a French Legitimist newspaper created in July 1865 by Charles-François-Xavier Müller and sold in 1866 to Émile de Girardin. Its last issue was published in 1940.David Wingeate Pike. France Divided: The French and the Civil War in Spain 2011. ISBN 184519490X. Page 288. "But its press run was mediocre.46* More impressive was Jacques Doriot, who had broken with the Communists in 1934 47* and founded, on 26 June 1936, the Parti Populaire Francais (PPF), recruiting followers from both extremes... and on 24 May, with the help of a former minister, Désiré Ferry, he took over the evening journal La Liberté, up to then in the hands of Andre Tardieu, the founder of the republican centre, a close friend of Clemenceau, and a former prime minister."
Editors 1866–1870 : Émile de Girardin; 1870–1876 : Léonce Détroyat; 1876–1889 : Louis Gal; 1893–1898 : Jules Franck; 1898–1911 : Georges Berthoulat; 1922–1933 : Camille Aymard; 1934–1936 : Désiré Ferry; 1937–1940 : Jacques Doriot.
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