Le Petit Parisien

Illustrated literary supplement on September 29, 1889.
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Founded	1876
Headquarters	Paris
Circulation	2,000,000+ <1920s> Daily

Le Petit Parisien was a prominent French newspaper during the French Third Republic.It was published between 1876 and 1944, and its circulation was over 2 million after the First World War.

[edit] Publishing

Despite its name, the paper was circulated across France, and records showed claims that it had the biggest newspaper circulation in the world at this time ^[1]. During the Second World War the paper, under the editorship of Claude Jeantet, was the official voice of the Vichy regime and in 1944 was briefly published by Jeantet in Nazi Germany before closing down.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ (French) Fonds du Petit Parisien, Archives nationales (French national archives).
2. ^ Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990, p. 198

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