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Below is a list of newspapers in France.

National

Daily

Name	Logo	Founded	Circulation	Chief editor	Ideology	Political position	Group	Remarks
La CroixCategory:Articles containing French-language text		15 June 1883	89,735 (2023)[1]	Jérôme Chapuis, Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner	Christian democracy	Centre-right	Bayard Presse	Roman-Catholic newspaper founded by the assumptionists
Les ÉchosCategory:Articles containing French-language text		1908	140,679 (2023)[2]	Christophe Jakubyszyn	Neo-liberalism, liberalism	Centre-right	LVMH (Bernard Arnault)	Primarily financial
L'ÉquipeCategory:Articles containing French-language text		1946	219,880 (2023)[3]	Lionel Dangoumau			Groupe Amaury	Sports newspaper, successor to L'Auto, founded in 1900
Le FigaroCategory:Articles containing French-language text		15 January 1826	357,695 (2023)[4]	Robert Mergui	Liberal conservatism, Gaullism, conservatism	Centre-right	Socpresse - Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault (Dassault Family)	Oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in France
L'HumanitéCategory:Articles containing French-language text		18 April 1904	38,084 (2023)[5]	Fabien Gay	Socialism, communism	Left-wing	Société nouvelle du journal l'Humanité	Founded by Jean Jaurès, was the organ of the French Communist Party from 1920 to 1994
LibérationCategory:Articles containing French-language text		18 April 1973	103,218 (2023)[6]	Dov Alfon	Socialism, social democracy	Left-wing	SARL Libération	Founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July
Le MondeCategory:Articles containing French-language text		1944	494,500 (2023)[7]	Jérôme Fenoglio	Social liberalism, social democracy	Centre-left	Groupe Le Monde	Newspaper of record in France. Politically independent, often leans to centre-left views. Le Monde is the only evening newspaper in this list
L'OpinionCategory:Articles containing French-language text		2013		Rémi Godeau	Liberal conservatism, Pro-Europeanism, Neoliberalism	Right-wing	Bey Medias Presse & Internet	Most recent national daily newspaper
Le Parisien / Aujourd'hui en FranceCategory:Articles containing French-language text		1944	259,958 (2023)[8]	Nicolas Charbonneau		Centre to centre-right	LVMH (Bernard Arnault)	Popular Parisian newspaper with a national version (Aujourd'hui en France). Circulation figures for both are combined here
Le Petit QuotidienCategory:Articles containing French-language text		1998	32,596 (2023)[9]	François Dufour			Play Bac Presse	Newspaper for children aged 6-10
Mon QuotidienCategory:Articles containing French-language text		1995	30,480 (2023)[10]	François Dufour			Play Bac Presse	Newspaper for children aged 10-14

Online newspapers

• Mediapart (internet only, investigative journalism, far-left)
• La Tribune (switched to internet only since 2012, economics)
• Slate (center-left)
• Atlantico (right-wing)
• Contrepoints

Free newspapers

• 20 Minutes: The Norwegian group Schibsted launched it in France at the beginning of 2002. It has a circulation of 766,000 in France (over 8 editions), of which 492,000 is in Paris. It has been considered the largest general-interest newspaper in France.

As of 16 October 2022, there is only one free national daily newspaper in France: 20 Minutes, which is often distributed in train stations and other busy areas on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Other free newspapers such as Direct Matin are now defunct.

English-language

• The Connexion
• International New York Times (based in Paris)
• The Local (online)
• Mediapart (English edition)
• Le Monde DiplomatiqueCategory:Articles containing French-language text (translated edition)

Regional

Former newspapers

• L'Ami du peuple, founded by Marat
• La Citoyenne, 1881–1891 (feminist)
• La Loi, 1880–1955 (legal)
• Combat, 1944–1974, founded during the Resistance, hosted articles by Camus, Sartre, Malraux
• Le Courrier français, 1884–1914 (conservative)
• Le Journal des débats, 1789–1944 (conservative)
• L'Express du Midi, 1891–1938 (conservative and royalist)
• La Gazette, 1631–1915, first French weekly, founded by Renaudot, became the mouthpiece of the Legitimist monarchists
• Le Globe, 1824–1832, founded by the republican and socialist Leroux, mouthpiece of the Saint-Simonists starting in 1830
• Je suis partout, 1930–1944, far-right newspaper, Collaborationist during the Vichy era
• Le Journal, 1892–1944
• Le Matin, 1884–1944
• Le National, 1830–1851 (liberal, founded by Thiers and Carrel)
• Naye Prese, 1934–1993
• Paris-Soir, 1923–1944
• Le Père Duchesne, 1790–1794, edited by Hébert
• Le Fils du Père Duchêne (other newspapers)
• Le Petit Parisien, 1876–1944
• Le TempsCategory:Articles containing French-language text, 1861–1942, compromised by collaboration during Vichy regime, replaced as the newspaper of record by the newly created Le MondeCategory:Articles containing French-language text
• La Voix des Femmes, 1848–1852 (feminist)
• La Voix des femmes, 1917-1937 (feminist)

See also

• History of French newspapers
• History of newspapers and magazines#France
• Media of France
• Online newspaper
• Telecommunications in France

References

Further reading

• Blackburn, George M. "Paris Newspapers and the American Civil War." Illinois Historical Journal (1991): 177–193. in JSTOR
• Censer, Jack Richard. Press and politics in pre-revolutionary France (Univ of California Press, 1987)
• Chalaby, Jean K. "Twenty years of contrast: The French and British press during the inter-war period." European Journal of Sociology 37.01 (1996): 143–159. 1919-39
• Collins, Irene. The government and the newspaper press in France, 1814-1881 (Oxford University Press, 1959)
• Collins, Ross F., and E. M. Palmegiano, eds. The Rise of Western Journalism 1815-1914: Essays on the Press in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States (2007), Chapter on France by Ross Collins
• Cragin, Thomas J. "The Failings of Popular News Censorship in Nineteenth-Century France." Book History 4.1 (2001): 49–80. online
• Edelstein, Melvin. "La Feuille villageoise, the Revolutionary Press, and the Question of Rural Political Participation." French Historical Studies (1971): 175–203. in JSTOR
• Eisendrath, Charles R. "Politics and Journalism--French Connection." Columbia Journalism Review 18.1 (1979): 58-61
• Freiberg, J. W. The French press: class, state, and ideology (Praeger Publishers, 1981)
• Goldstein, Robert Justin. "Fighting French Censorship, 1815-1881." French Review (1998): 785–796. in JSTOR
• Gough, Hugh. The newspaper press in the French Revolution (Taylor & Francis, 1988)
• Isser, Natalie. The Second Empire and the Press: A Study of Government-Inspired Brochures on French Foreign Policy in Their Propaganda Milieu (Springer, 1974)
• Kerr, David S. Caricature and French Political Culture 1830-1848: Charles Philipon and the Illustrated Press (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Thogmartin, Clyde. The national daily press of France (Birmingham Alabama: Summa Publications, Inc., 1998), 370pp
• Trinkle, Dennis A. The Napoleonic press: the public sphere and oppositionary journalism (Edwin Mellen Pr, 2002)
• Weigle, Clifford. "The Paris Press from 1920 to 1940" Journalism Quarterly (1941) 18: 376–84.
• Weigle, Clifford. "The Rise and Fall of the Havas News Agency" Journalism Quarterly (1942) 19:277-86
• Williams, Roger Lawrence. Henri Rochefort, prince of the gutter press (Scribner, 1966)
• Zerner, Elisabeth H. "Rumors in Paris Newspapers," Public Opinion Quarterly (1946) 10#3 pp. 382–391 in JSTOR In summer 1945

External links

• (in English) Regular French Press Review - Radio France International
• Brander Mathews, "Notes on Parisian Newspapers," The Century 35 (December 1, 1887): 200-12
• Actualités françaises de France - WorldNewsList, Journaux français
• "The daily press in France," compared to the press in the UK, on About-France.com
• English translations of articles from French newspapers at nonprofit WorldMeets.US
• Le Guide Presse : French press directory, index of all French newspapers and magazines