in 1893 "l'express" absorbed "le nouvelliste du tarn", a daily newspaper based in the department of tarn and established in 1880. in 1914 it absorbed "le ralliement et le courrier de tarn-et-garonne", a daily paper also based in tarn and established in 1904, and that same year took over the subscriptions to "la voix du peuple", an organ of the union conservatrice party in gers. between 1909 and 1914 the paper also published an edition for the hautes-pyrénées region entitled "l'action pyrénéenne".