La Tour

La Tour (: 'The Tower') is a daily published in Redon. It is the oldest national daily in Redon, and one of the alongside Le Miroir and Révolution.

First founded in 1795 by Redonian philosopher and revolutionary Odo Marchant as Le Courrier de la Tour, the paper was named for the Vidal Tower in Senon, which stood close to Marchant's family home on Rue de l'Aveline. A liberal and revolutionary paper from its inception, La Tour has been the target of censorshop and suppression by authorities numerous times throughout its history. The paper was banned in 1811 under the Second Republic of Junien Bettencourt, but continued to operate underground until the birth of the Third Republic in 1871. It would be briefly banned again after the De Montfort Coup from 1902 - 1903, but returned to open publication in the early years of the Third Republic.

La Tour's historically readership and editorial line clashed frequently with the Communards, and the paper was notoriously critical of the Anémone Revolution despite its own suppression by the De Montfort regime. The paper's offices were raided by the CSR on numerous occasions, especially after the rise of the Septembrists in 1928. In 1933 the National Publication Law finally clamped down on independent press in Redon, and La Tours editorial staff moved to neighboring Crynia, establishing Nouvelle Tour. The paper began catering to the Redonian dissident and exile community, and briefly worked with Zusian and Crynian intelligence to disseminate anti-collectivist propaganda in the years leading up to and during the Endwar; this ended with Crynia's entry into the war on the side of the Entente.

In the postwar period, Nouvelle Tour supported Redonian protests throughout the 1950s and 60s. With the lifting of restrictions on press in the Réformation and the reestablishment of La Tour in Redon, Nouvelle Tour became a sister paper with seperate editorial staff. In 1983 Nouvelle Tour was purchased by the Zusian Herrenheim Publishing Group, while La Tour was acquired in 1992 by Redonian conglomerate Pivot S.A. Since the 1990s, La Tour's editorial line has become generally liberal-conservative; strongly supportive of the Amphian Compact, and leaning towards right-wing candidates and parties.