Artists, restaurateurs, politicians, athletes, scientists, ten great witnesses of our region tell their link with La Dépêche du Midi which celebrates its 150th anniversary this Friday, October 2, 2020.
“An emotional bond with La Dépêche”
Bernard Lapasset, 72, Honorary President COJO Paris 2024, Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées)
Bernard Lapasset. – NR – LAURENT DARD
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“I have subscribed to the Hautes-Pyrénées edition of La Dépêche du Midi. I read it every morning. This is something important to me. I first read sport, rugby, it’s my priority. Then, I appreciate that La Dépêche offers regional and national information. There are elements that intersect between these two dimensions. I have an emotional bond with La Dépêche, because we live with it. We are close to the information that comes to us ”.
“My great pride”
Éric Carrière, 63, actor, Les Chevaliers du Fiel, Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
Eric Carrière. – DDM – FREDERIC CHARMEUX
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“La Dépêche for me is the great start of my career. I participated in the great radio hook of the Micro d’or and obtained the prize for humor and originality with a very large article by the late Bernard Lescure which allowed me to sign my first contracts. It was a tremendous support and pride to be so big in the newspaper that all families read every morning. La Dépêche has evolved a lot and its national pages are very interesting. Digital subscriber I never miss any edition; whether in Toulouse, New York or Paris, I read La Dépêche du Midi! “
“A precious link”
Carole Delga, 49, President of the regional council, Martres-Tolosane (Haute-Garonne)
Carole Delga.
– DDM – NATHALIE SAINT-AFFRE
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“La Dépêche is a precious link between citizens, between regions. It punctuates each of my days, which begin with the edition of the Comminges of course and which are now punctuated with information in real time. It is also “the Journal of Democracy”, that of Jaurès … A heritage and common values. Congratulations to the teams who have been able to innovate and diversify in digital, always at the service of the information of the greatest number. Today more than ever, we need the local and regional press to bring us closer, to make society. Happy birthday ! “
“We were the center of the world”
Christian Constant, 70 years old, starred chef, Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne)
Christian Constant.
– DDM – DDM – MICHEL LABONNE
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“La Dépêche is the link with the city of heart, Montauban, and my heart of rugby club, USM and Sapiac. I remember the newspaper the week after the title of champion of France of May 28, 1967. One had the impression that Montauban was the center of the world. It was only us who mattered … Another thing that I like today that I left the city, La Dépêche allows me to follow the evolution of the city. Montauban is a beautiful town, very beautiful even. La Dépêche helps me remember that. “
” A relationship of trust “
Philippe Sella, 58, director of rugby at the SUA, Agen (Lot-et-Garonne)
Philippe Sella. – DDM – DDM MORAD CHERCHARI
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“It was when I arrived in Agen that I realized the importance of the press, especially as it is provided there! Your group has supported me in my career. I share its proximity and its humanist values. When I mention La Dépêche, I think of the relationship of trust established with a journalist, Jean-Louis Lafitte. He knew how to sort to bring out my feelings. I have also often met your boss, Jean-Michel Baylet, as a neighbor in Valence-d’Agen or in the matches of the XV of France. “
“In my father’s tailor shop”
Jean-Louis Étienne, 73, explorer, Vielmur-sur-Agout (Tarn)
Jean-Louis Étienne. – DDM – AURORE CROS
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“I could talk about the time when the newspaper had a big place in my childhood. It was there that we learned what was happening in our territory. I have always seen La Dépêche in the kitchen or in my father’s and my grandfather’s tailoring workshop in Vielmur where there were often people from the village who came to discuss and obviously comment on the information they found in the newspaper. It was already social networks before its time! “
“La Dépêche, a second family”
Martin Malvy, 84, former President of the Region, Figeac (Lot)
Martin Malvy.
– DDM – DDM – NATHALIE SAINT-AFFRE
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“Like many families in the Lot, my parents and grandparents read the newspaper. My links with La Dépêche are also my beginnings in journalism in 1962 and for 15 years until my election to Figeac. It was the reels of photos and texts in the bags that we carried to the station, the marble, the lead frames… These men and women who marked the history of this newspaper, including Evelyne-Jean Baylet, unquestionably a great president. La Dépêche has been a second family to me ”.
“All archived articles”
Perrine Laffont, 21, mogul ski champion, Lavelanet (Ariège)
Perrine Laffont. – DDM – DDM FLORENT RAOUL
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“My grandpa will buy La Dépêche every day. And my grandma does the archives. La Dépêche wrote my first articles. I was happy because we were talking about my sport. I have a very good relationship with Angel, the newspaper’s local correspondent. He has always followed me; it creates affinities. “Her mother confirms:” La Dépêche and Angel immediately highlighted Perrine’s results when mogul skiing was a sport with little publicity; it contributed to its media aura. Perrine was very proud as a child when she was in the newspaper. “
“She looks at our lives”
Olivier Norek, 45, writer, Decazeville (Aveyron)
Olivier Mink. – DDM – DDM
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“La Dépêche. Like a magnifying glass, it tells the story of the village festival and the return to green class from college, then like a telescope, it tells the story of France, Europe, then the world. 25 years ago, I was 20 years old. It was already on the breakfast table. When my father was 20, she was there too. When her mother was 20, too. And when his mother’s mother was 20, too. She spends the days like a calendar. She looks at our lives, to tell them. Our hair turns white over the years. Then finished, it will light the fire in the fireplace for the coming winter ”.
“To be able to take the news of the country”
Ariane Daguin, 62, heads the D’Artagnan company in New York, Auch (Gers)
Arian Daguin.
– Photo DDM
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“The expatriate that I am is delighted, every day, to be able to take the news of the country, the region and my city, Auch, on the La Dépêche app. It is an essential moment of the day without which I would miss my roots. I have always seen La Dépêche at the Hôtel de France. As a child, when I was on vacation, I was responsible for hanging the copies of the newspaper on the reading sticks. This allowed customers to read without getting their hands dirty. “
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