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By focusing on the processes of political news manufacturing in the first French-language newspapers, this study demonstrates how the constraints and modes of news circulation influence the nature of political information and its writing in the 17th century. Thanks to the study of the media, discursive and enunciative processes employed by journalists, it appears that the first political press, by asserting to build itself on the uncertainty inherent to the media system of the time, gives birth to a “dire-vrai”, to a “mode de véridiction” (Michel Foucault), likely to satisfy a public which, in return, grants it success.

The Eastern Question in its Balkan dimension, involved in various manners the Great Powers throughout the 19th century. Competing each other in order to promote their own political and economic interests, cultural influence represented a parallel expression and stake of these antagonisms. As far as the French policy was concerned, Third Republic’s governments, sustained the establishment of schools run by secular institutions or religious congregations and the organisation of French scientific and humanitarian missions. Through the exploration of Quai d’Orsay’s diplomatic archives and consular correspondence, this paper aims at studying which were the initiatives and institutions at the aftermath of the Great War, that made part of this network, serving as an ambassador of cultural diplomacy.

This paper is a first attempt to examine the history of the Greek French-language press of the first half of the 20th century. At this preliminary stage of my project, the paper makes an inventory of this period and aims to identify its main tendencies in order to refine its periodisation, establish a typology and list the main actors who are responsible for this editorial production.

Few are the works about the history of Bulgarian emigration and about the political and cultural organisation of the emigrants in Europe and in America from the end of the 19th century. The most interesting series is built of emigrants’ editions, in particular periodicals, but also a corpuses of literary texts, special editions, literary collections, and commemorative pamphlets, often hard to access. Our study carries on mainly within the Bulgarian collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and also in some private archives in France and Bulgaria. Many interviews have been conducted in Paris and Sofia.France always had a strong symbolism for the Bulgarians, traditionally French speaking and Francophile. Country of the French Revolution, on democracy and freedom, it quickly became a priority for the Bulgarian political emigrants who flee, after 1944, the arrival to power of the Popular Front. This study aims to show the global strategies press of the Bulgarian political emigration and to underline the fact that this press inevitably follows the circulations and transfers of the political centres in Europe.

The paper attempts to deconstruct the journalistic way of dealing with a political and social question in Morocco – the problem of unemployed young graduates. Four newspapers have been examined, their content has been analyzed, and we shall see how the information is selected and how the categorization leads somehow, to mere mockery. Beyond, the analysis shows that the construction is held on ambivalent terms, ambivalent standpoints on the question. This type of ambivalence is the result of a political transition context, in which the arrangements in favour of the unemployed graduates problem, give way to a sense of uncertainty and ambiguity. If the press echoes social facts, it is in response of the political situation of the moment; rather than presenting plainly the data, it adorns a specific presentation of society, although it represents just, a specific social form.