It replaced the newspaper "Le Nouvelliste du Morbihan", forbidden and confiscated for collaboration.
The first chairman of the new newspaper was a résistant, professional journalist Jean Le Duigou, who left the role in mid October 1944 before devoting himself to journalism again.
In October 1944, a Société à responsabilité limitée was founded consisting of 23 shares of 5,000 Francs each: "La Liberté du Morbihan" moved to Lorient in March 1951.
[1] Published daily in the evenings since its creation, La Liberté moved to morning publication in November 1981, when the newspaper was printed in Nantes by Presse-Océan.
This technical reorganisation failed to arrest a downturn in fortunes and falling readership.