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Louis Charles Roudanez, M.D. (1823-1890) was an American physician and newspaper publisher. He founded the first African-American newspaper in the American South, L'Union (1862-1864), which was the first bilingual (French-English) newspaper for African Americans in the United States. After it folded, he founded La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orleans (The New Orleans Tribune) (1864-1870), the first daily black newspaper, which was also bilingual.
Dr. Roudanez, who was a Creole of color, founded the paper with his older brother Jean Baptiste Roudanez. They hired Paul Trevigne to serve as editor, a role he continued with the second paper. Also a free man of color, he helped Roudanez promote the causes of Republican Unionism and abolition of slavery.