Le Soleil

Le Soleil ("The Sun") may refer to the following newspapers:

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Le Soleil (Quebec)

Le Soleil is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec. It was founded on December 28, 1896 and is published in compact format since April 2006 (it had traditionally been printed in broadsheet). It is distributed mainly in Quebec City; however, it is also for sale at newsstands in Ottawa, Montreal, New Brunswick and some places in Florida, where many Quebecers spend the winter. Its main competitor is the tabloid Le Journal de Québec, which enjoys higher circulation. It is owned by Power Corporation of Canada.

On weekdays Le Soleil contains four sections : the front section (Actualités), containing local and international news coverage; the Arts & Life, or "B" section (Arts & Vie); the Business, or "C" section (Économie); and the Sports, or "S" section. The Saturday edition contains many more special sections.

History

Le Soleil rose from the ashes of L'Électeur, the official newspaper of the Liberal Party of Canada, which shut down in December 1896. The first edition was published on December 28, 1896. one day after the disappearance of its predecessor, which shut down because the Catholic clergy had forbidden it to parishioners when the newspaper criticized the Church's electoral interference.

Le Soleil (Senegal)

Le Soleil is a daily newspaper published in Dakar, Senegal and founded in 1970.

History

In 1933, French press publisher Charles de Breteuil founded the Paris-Dakar as a weekly newspaper. The Paris-Dakar would in 1936 become the first daily newspaper in subsaharan Africa. Following the independence of Senegal, the paper changed its name in 1961 and became the Dakar-Matin. On 20 May 1970, it finally became Le Soleil.

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Soleil

Soleil is the French word for the Sun.

Soleil may also refer to:

In music:

Other uses

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Soleil (Jean-Pierre Ferland album)

Soleil (also known merely as Jean-Pierre Ferland) is an album by Jean-Pierre Ferland, released in 1971.

Tracklist

All tracks written and composed by Jean-Pierre Ferland and Paul Baillargeon, except "Sœur Marie" by Ferland, Baillargeon and David Spinozza.

References

Roger Hanin

Roger Hanin (20 October 1925 – 11 February 2015) was a French actor and film director, best known for playing the title role in the 1989–2006 TV police drama, Navarro.

Career

Roger Hanin was born in 1925 in Algiers, Algeria as Roger Lévy to Jewish parents. His brother-in-law was François Mitterrand (the late former President of France), whose wife, the late Danielle, was the sister of Hanin's wife, Christine Gouze-Rénal.

With Claude Chabrol, Hanin co-wrote the scripts for a pair of spy films in the mid-1960s. Chabrol directed Code Name: Tiger (1964) and Our Agent Tiger (1965), both featuring Hanin in the starring role of secret agent Le Tigre.

Awards and honours

His 1985 film, Hell Train, was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.

In September 2000 he received the "Achir medal", the highest decoration from Algeria. He said: "I always refused decorations. This is the first time that I agree, but it's also the last because I want it to be unique. "