News, reviews or even good intentions. As the year 2023 is about to begin, the editorial staff of The republican echo she dived into the archives, to browse the editions of the last fifty years – the first of each year – in 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003 and 2013. A look back to relive the chronicles of the past for her readers.
1972-1973On the front page of your newspaper, in the edition of Saturday 30 December, Sunday 31 December 1972 and Monday 1 January 1973, the editorial staff obviously wishes you a happy new year and wonders what 1973 could be made of… But above all it returns on one of the major conflicts of the time, pitting the United States against Vietnam. The echo asks the question “War or peace?”, while the US Air Force continues to bomb North Vietnam.
“In the face of the new year that everyone is preparing to welcome with hope, we hope that it will be kinder to the unfortunate and the sick and that it will be peaceful for our brothers in Vietnam and the Middle East”, declared Claude Gerbet, deputy for Eure at the time -et-Loir, in this same edition.
1982-1983 Death of the actress Grace Kelly, out of Steven Spielberg’s interplanetary success, ET, the extraterrestrial, or the RFA – France meeting of July 8, 1982, in the semifinals of the World Cup. Many significant events of the year 1982, all collected, in images, on the first page of the edition of Friday 31 December 1982, Saturday 1 January and Sunday 2 January 1983 of The echo.
It was also an opportunity to highlight local political news as the March 1983 municipal elections approached. René Lautout (PR-UDF), who was preparing to face PS mayor Georges Lemoine during this future electoral deadline, just announced twenty-three names from his list.
A list that in the end didn’t worry the outgoing city councilor, re-elected in the first round, with 56.10% of the votes.
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1992-1993The Thursday December 31, 1992 and Friday January 1, 1993 edition of The republican echo announces, clearly visible on the front page, the start of the 15th edition of the Paris-Dakar, this same Friday.
In addition to recalling one of the most famous rallies in the world, the newspaper dwells, in its pages, on the year 1992: “The year of crises in the Eure-et-Loir”. “From the agricultural turmoil to the waves of layoffs, through the demonstrations of high school students and the grumblings of truck drivers, 1992 will have been marked by a series of convulsions in the Eure-et-Loir”, reads the page of the Region. A wave of business closures in the department (Spelic, SIAA, Pasquier, etc.) led to numerous layoffs. “Seeing the parade of layoffs that hit Eure-et-Loir in 1992, one would say that the departmental economy was hit”, he underlines again The echo.
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On the agricultural side it is also “the hit of the club”. On January 1, 1993, “Cereal Beauce woke up with a hangover,” the newspaper reads. The new agricultural reforms (the CAP, the GATT) are under discussion, but this is also the case in the field of education or transport. “When the government wants to reform the high school, the students are on the streets, in Dreux, in Chartres, in Paris. But did we need another reform? When he wants to set up the license on the spot, the truck drivers are on the roads, but sideways. Have we really taken the forms to pass the pill? » he marvels The echo.
2002-2003In the edition of The republican echo Tuesday 31 December 2002 and Wednesday 1 January 2003, the Euréliens vote: it is Albéric de Montgolfier, then president of the UMP of the Eure-et-Loir General Council, who wins the recognition of “personality of the year in Eure-et-Loir Loir”. et-Loir”, in front of Jean-Pierre Gorges, UMP mayor of Chartres and Francis Joyon, famous navigator of Hips.
The January 2, 2003 edition echoes our December 21, 2022 edition. “As of yesterday, a regulation obliges emergency room doctors to reduce working hours to 48 hours a week. Problem: the department’s hospitals feel incapable of complying with the law, particularly due to staffing problems,” he points out The echo.
At the Victor-Jousselin hospital in Dreux, the head of emergencies is asking for “six more places” to contain the crisis.
Almost twenty years later, on December 20, 2022, the white plan was just activated at the Dreux hospital. Epidemics of bronchiolitis, flu and Covid have, in recent times, overloaded the hospital in Drouais, forced to implement this device and therefore to deprogram non-urgent surgical operations, to free up beds. Already in 2002, as in 2022, again, there is a lack of personnel and means.
Faced with overburdened emergencies, Dreux hospital snaps up the white plan
2012-2013On the front page of your edition of 31 December 2012 and 1 January 2013, the drama of a family from Amilly, who saw their house devastated by flames on Christmas Eve. The story had moved the whole department and a real momentum of solidarity had been created, very quickly. The newspaper also headlines: “Deprived of a roof at Christmas, rehoused at New Year’s”.
The echo it also proposes, for latecomers, a list of places where it is still possible to celebrate this New Year’s Eve 2012, before returning, in its edition of 2 January 2013, to greetings for the new year… with the voice of children. At 10 Zoé wanted to “always party”, while Constance wanted to start a new activity at the beginning of the year, gymnastics, to become an “Olympic champion”.
2002 – 2022: when history repeats itself. It was a first time, in 2002. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, – Lula -, was elected president of Brazil, the first from the left, of the working class. An election celebrated “in the presence of his friends, Cuban presidents Fidel Castro and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez”, recalls The echo in the edition of Thursday 2 January 2003. Twelve years after leaving the highest office, Lula’s return comes in 2022, after just under two years in prison. He is also the first Brazilian president to have three terms in total: 2002, 2006 and 2022. Re-elected for the third time on October 30, 2022, against outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro, Lula’s last election is obviously mentioned in our edition . November 1st. He could be the subject of a throwback, in 2032 …
Laura Alliche
