Télégraphe Officiel, official newspaper of the Illyrian Provnices: projects and reality

Abstract

The author finds in the article that the French authorities founded during Illyrian Provinces the newspaper Télégraphe Officiel, which was to spread among the population conceptions about advancement and civilisation after the French example, and to glorify the power and superiority of the empire and Napoleon. The newspaper was by publishing imperial legislation documents and legislation instruments by the general governor at the same time a privileged support to the French administration. However, the newspaper met with several difficulties and did was not successful in satisfying the ambitions of the French authorities. Despite various attempts for improvement, it remained a newspaper of modest quality, which the inhabitants of the Illyrian provinces little valued. That experience seems typical for difficulties which the French authorities met with in the Illyrian provinces.