"L'Equipe" celebrates its 75th anniversary all week

On February 28,

will officially celebrate its 75th anniversary.

But the management of the famous sports daily will not wait for Sunday to launch the festivities.

As of Monday, the newspaper indeed began to celebrate this anniversary.

Since 1946, the publication has undergone many transformations: the switch to color, digitization, and more recently the change in size, with the adoption in 2015 of a smaller newspaper, in so-called "tabloid" format.

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Lots of text and few images on the first cover

All week long, the sports daily offers to come back to seven Unes which have marked its history, or which tell it.

Today is the very first, that of February 28, 1946, with a lot of texts and few images.

In short, a One that clearly illustrates the road traveled in 75 years.

"You should know that

, at the beginning, is Unes where there are no photos. The photos will appear as and when", specifies Jérôme Cazadieu, the editorial director of

.

"Then the Unes will be with photos and with text, a bit of what you can know today, with the World, until the end of the 1980s."

"A real revolution when the front page goes into color"

And then

imposes its trademark, with Unes which take the whole page.

"There will be a real revolution when the front page goes into color. We will then ensure that the front page becomes the emblem of

", continues the journalist.

“Apart from

, there is no newspaper today which has a front page as emblematic as that of

. The switch to the tabloid was a concern at one time for our readers on these Unes, but we succeeded to overcome this pitfall. "

And on the front page of the daily Monday, we find Kylian MBappé blocked by a defender of AS Monaco, last night, an image which illustrates the defeat at home of PSG (0-2).

All the stages in the making of the front page will be told in a special report on Sunday in

.