La Voix du Monténégrin – La Voix du Monténégro : Journal officiel d’exil d’un Royaume en voie de disparition, 1917‑1921

Abstract

Montenegro gained international recognition at the Congress of great European powers in Berlin in 1878. Declared a kingdom in 1910, it participated in the Balkan wars, as well as in the Great War with the Allies. However, it had to lay down its arms in January 1916 before the Austro‑Hungarian troops. The decisions of the National Assembly of Podgorica, convened in November 1918, will change its fate. Incorporated into the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Montenegro will cease to exist. Following the capitulation of his country, King Nikola, his court and his government will go into exile. They will be welcomed in France; the official journal of the country Glas Crnogorca (The voice of the Montenegrin), the publishing of which was interrupted in December 1915, re‑emerged in Paris in January 1917. This weekly journal was published in Montenegrin language, first under the title The voice of the Montenegrin, then titled The voice of Montenegro. A total of 91 issues appeared during this period. The last copy of the newspaper published in France announced the death of King Nikola at Cap d’Antibes in March 1921.The present study proposes to retrace the different sections of the official Montenegrin newspaper in exile, the public it targeted, and the impact it aimed to achieve.

Keywords

• Kingdom of Montenegro
• exile
• official journal
• France
• King Nikola