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French daily newspaper
Le Parisien
(
pronounced
[l?
pa?izj??]
;
lit.
'
The Parisian
'
) is a French daily
newspaper
covering both international and national news, and local news of
Paris
and its suburbs. Since 2015, Le Parisien has been owned by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, better known as
LVMH
, belonging to French billionaire
Bernard Arnault
.
[2]
History and profile
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The paper was established as
Le Parisien libere
(
pronounced
[l?
pa?izj??
libe?e]
;
lit.
'
The Freed Parisian
'
) by
Emilien Amaury
in 1944,
[3]
[4]
and was published for the first time on 22 August 1944. The paper was originally launched as the organ of the
French underground
during the
German occupation of France in World War II
.
[4]
The name was changed to the current one in 1986.
[3]
A national edition exists, called
Aujourd'hui en France
(
pronounced
[o?u?d?i
??
f???s]
;
lit.
'
Today in France
'
).
LVMH
acquired the paper from
Editions Philippe Amaury
in 2015.
[5]
Circulation
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]
Le Parisien
had a circulation near to one million copies in the early 1970s.
[6]
The paper reached a circulation of 659,200 copies on 24 April 1995, the day after the first round of the
presidential election
.
[3]
In the period of 1995?1996 the paper had a circulation of 451,159 copies.
[7]
The combined circulation of
Le Parisien
was 485,000 copies in 2001.
[8]
The paper had a circulation of 147,143 copies and a combined circulation of 360,505 copies in 2002.
[9]
It was the second largest regional newspaper in France with a combined circulation of 530,000 copies in 2008,
[10]
behind
Ouest-France
, which had a circulation of about 800,000 copies. The circulation of
Le Parisien
was 229,638 copies in 2014.
[11]
The circulation of Le Parisien was 264,952 copies in 2020.
[12]
Year
|
Circulation
|
2016
|
208,978
|
2017
|
207,386
|
2018
|
196,226
|
2019
|
187,041
|
2020
|
180,854
|
2021
|
182,291
|
2022
|
185,558
|
2023
|
188,118
|
DDM 01/2024
|
200,130
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