Weekly news magazine in France
Le Figaro Magazine
is a
French language
weekly
news magazine
published in Paris, France. The magazine is the weekly
supplement
of the daily newspaper
Le Figaro
and has been in circulation since 1978.
History
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The magazine is the first supplement of
Le Figaro
newspaper.
[1]
It was established in 1978,
[2]
[3]
when
Le Figaro Litteraire
was renamed as
Le Figaro Magazine
.
[4]
Louis Pauwels
was functional in its start
[5]
[6]
and was appointed its director.
[7]
His daughter,
Marie-Claire Pauwels
, worked as fashion director of the magazine from 1980 to 2006.
[8]
The magazine is part of the Figaro Group which also owns the daily newspaper
Le Figaro
and the magazines
Le Particulier
and
Madame Figaro Magazine
.
[9]
[10]
[11]
Le Figaro Magazine
is published by Societe du Figaro S.A. on a weekly basis and is sold with
Le Figaro
on Saturdays.
[12]
The headquarters of
Le Figaro Magazine
is in Paris.
[12]
It provides articles on news about political events and current affairs.
[13]
The weekly also features articles concerning art, music and literature.
[13]
Alexis Brezet
[
fr
]
served as the
editor-in-chief
of the weekly.
[14]
Profile
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The magazine has a
right-wing
stance as
Le Figaro
.
[15]
One of the concepts the magazine opposes is
cosmopolitanism
, which refers to non-European
immigration to France
.
[16]
The weekly supported the
New Right
movement in France.
[16]
Some members of the
GRECE
, an
ethnonationalist
think-tank
, sit on the editorial team of the magazine.
[17]
[18]
Louis Pauwels, who directed and founded the magazine, was a member of GRECE,
[5]
and
Alain de Benoist
, founder of the organization, was also one of the regular contributors.
[7]
This close connection between the magazine and GRECE continued until 1980.
[19]
Although the magazine remained loyal to its conservative stance, it began to support for
neoliberalism
.
[19]
Controversy
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In 1995
Le Figaro Magazine
and
Le Figaro
newspaper were sentenced to pay damages following the publication of an article by Victor Loupan which claimed that the
Harvard University
academics were destroying the French literature.
[20]
Specific targets of the criticism were two American literary scholars,
Susan Rubin Suleiman
and
Alice Jardine
, who sued the publications.
[20]
Circulation
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By the end of 1979,
Le Figaro Magazine
had nearly half a million readers.
[21]
The magazine sold 497,585 copies during the 2003-2004 period.
[22]
The circulation of the magazine was 448,000 copies during the 2007?2008 period.
[23]
In 2009, its circulation was 424,385 copies.
[24]
[25]
In 2013, the magazine had a circulation of 431,865 copies.
[26]
Its circulation fell to 408,361 copies in 2014.
[27]
References
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"Le Figaro Magazine moves to Methode"
.
EidosMedia
. Paris. 28 February 2012. Archived from
the original
on 18 May 2015
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
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Michael Palmer; Jeremy Tunstall (2006).
Media Moguls
. London; New York:
Routledge
. p. 148.
ISBN
978-1-134-93734-9
.
- ^
Alex Hughes; Keith A Reader, eds. (2002).
Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture
. London; New York: Routledge. p. 213.
ISBN
978-1-134-78866-8
.
- ^
"Societe du Figaro S.A. - Company Profile"
.
Reference for Business
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
- ^
a
b
Anton Shekhovtsov (2009). "Aleksandr Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism: The New Right a la Russe".
Religion Compass
.
3
(4): 697?716.
doi
:
10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00158.x
.
- ^
Anne Boulay (29 January 1997).
"Louis Pauwels: Figaro-ci, derapages-la. Le fondateur du "Figaro Magazine" est mort hier a 76 ans"
.
Liberation
(in French)
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
- ^
a
b
Thomas Sheehan (24 January 1980).
"Paris: Moses and Polytheism"
.
The New York Review of Books
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
- ^
Natasha Montrose (23 May 2011).
"Marie-Claire Pawels, Le Figaro Editor, Dies at 66"
.
Women's Wear Daily
. Paris
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
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"Our Vision"
.
The Figaro Group
. Archived from
the original
on 11 June 2015
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
- ^
Felicia Greiff (25 March 2016).
"After Taking On Blockers, Le Figaro Group Partners With AppNexus"
.
MediaPost
. Retrieved
28 June
2016
.
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"Figaro Group"
.
Groupe Dassault
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
- ^
a
b
"Le Figaro Magazine"
.
Publicitas
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
- ^
a
b
"Le Figaro Magazine"
.
LexisNexis
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
- ^
"Change of leadership at French daily Le Figaro stirs rumours"
.
Expatica
. 12 July 2012
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
- ^
Fabien Jannic-Cherbonnel (2 February 2014).
"French weekly magazines review"
.
Radio France Internationale
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
- ^
a
b
Charles Tshimanga (2009).
"Let the Music Play: The African Diaspora, Popular Culture, and National Identity in Contemporary France"
. In Charles Tshimanga; Ch. Didier Gondola; Peter J. Bloom (eds.).
Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France
. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN:
Indiana University Press
. p. 261.
ISBN
978-0-253-00390-4
.
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James Shields (2007).
The Extreme Right in France: From Petain to Le Pen
. London; New York: Routledge. p. 269.
ISBN
978-1-134-86110-1
.
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Richard F. Kuisel (2012).
The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power
. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press
. p. 74.
ISBN
978-0-691-15181-6
.
- ^
a
b
Nathalie Krikorian (1986).
"Europeanisme, nationalisme, liberalisme dans les editoriaux de Louis Pauwels (Figaro-Magazine, 1977-1984)"
.
CNRS
(in French).
12
(12).
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a
b
Susan Rubin Suleiman (2000). "Big bad wolf: A short chapter in the long story of Franco?American relations".
Sites
.
4
(1): 145-151.
doi
:
10.1080/10260210008456018
.
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Tomislav Sunic (2011).
Against Democracy and Equality
. Arktos. p. 66.
ISBN
978-1-907166-25-9
.
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E. Martin (2005).
Marketing Identities Through Language: English and Global Imagery in French Advertising
. London; New York:
Palgrave Macmillan
. p. 6.
ISBN
978-0-230-51190-3
.
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Anne Austin; et al. (2008).
"Western Europe Market & Media Fact"
(PDF)
.
ZenithOptimedia
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 5 February 2015
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
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Raymond Kuhn (2011).
The Media In Contemporary France
. Berkshire: McGraw-Hill Education. p. 4.
ISBN
978-0-335-23622-0
.
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"World Magazine Trends 2010/2011"
(PDF)
.
FIPP
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2 April 2015
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
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"Market Data. France"
.
Media Passport
. Archived from
the original
on 2 April 2015
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
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"Presse Magazine"
.
OJD
. Archived from
the original
on 19 March 2015
. Retrieved
10 May
2015
.
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