In this short discovery video uncover Australia's longest running foreign-language newspaper, the French/English language Australian newspaper, Le Courrier Australien.

Issues of the newspaper from 1892 to 2011 have been digitised and are available through Trove.

Learn how to do a basic search for Le Courrier Australien, how to browse the newspapers category for Le Courrier Australien and how to download articles and cite them. Lastly, en français, take a look at how to text correct french language articles.

The thumbnail photo used in this video is a detail capture taken from the Croix-Rouge francaise and Alliance francaise de Victoria invitation to French National Day, 14th July, 1917.

Transcript available here: https://bit.ly/2B2DVxq [Word.docx]

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