the yoke of the Austro-Hungarian empire . For a time , her imagination was captured by the ‘ beacon in the East ’, which was developing in Russia and which she explored in her first pieces for a leading daily newspaper of the period , Le Petit Parisien . Weiss ’ 1921 report , ‘ Cinq semaines à Moscou ’ ( Five weeks in Moscow ), earned her the beginnings of international renown .
Louise Weiss at the headquarters of L ’ Europe nouvelle Source : Fondation Jean Monnet pour l ’ Europe
She continued her journalism work in an international news weekly , L ’ Europe Nouvelle 3 , of which she was not the founder but became the director in 1923 , after the editor-in-chief died . The date is symbolic because , at that time , Europe was contending with the issue of reparations and the Ruhr crisis .
3 . M . Franza , L ’ Europe Nouvelle ( 1920-1934 ). Etude et réaction d ’ une revue politique face au mouvement de rénovation internationale et sa double approche de la construction de la paix par la presse et la SDN , doctoral thesis under the supervision of Adeline Daumard , Paris 1 University , 1999 .
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