L'Alsace-Le Pays is a regional daily French newspaper. L'Alsace covers the Alsace region and Le Pays the Franche-Comté region. The Alsace-The Country was created in November 1944. In addition to its headquarters in Mulhouse , Alsace-The Country has 15 local agencies in the Haut-Rhin department ( Altkirch , Cernay , Colmar , Guebwiller , Masevaux , Mulhouse , Saint -Louis , Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines , Thann and Wittelsheim ), two in the Bas-Rhin department ( Sélestat and Strasbourg ), one in the Territoire de Belfort department (Belfort ), one in the Doubs department ( Montbéliard ), and one in the Haute-Saône department ( Lure ). A French-German bilingual edition is also published, representing 4.72 percent of the newspaper's global sales in 2003. The publishing director and manager of the paper is Jean-Dominique Pretet.