Le Figaro Magazine is aFrench language weeklynews magazine published in Paris, France. The magazine is the weeklysupplement of the daily newspaperLe Figaro and has been in circulation since 1978.
The magazine is the first supplement ofLe Figaro newspaper.[1] It was established in 1978,[2][3] whenLe Figaro Littéraire was renamed asLe 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 newspaperLe Figaro and the magazinesLe Particulier andMadame Figaro Magazine.[9][10][11]Le Figaro Magazine is published by Société du Figaro S.A. on a weekly basis and is sold withLe Figaro on Saturdays.[12]
The headquarters ofLe 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]
The magazine has aright-wing stance asLe Figaro.[15] One of the concepts the magazine opposes iscosmopolitanism, which refers to non-Europeanimmigration to France.[16] The weekly supported theNew Right movement in France.[16] Some members of theGRECE, anethnonationalistthink-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] andAlain 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 forneoliberalism.[19]
In 1995Le Figaro Magazine andLe Figaro newspaper were sentenced to pay damages following the publication of an article by Victor Loupan which claimed that theHarvard University academics were destroying the French literature.[20] Specific targets of the criticism were two American literary scholars,Susan Rubin Suleiman andAlice Jardine, who sued the publications.[20]
By the end of 1979,Le Figaro Magazine had nearly half a million readers. The magazine sold 497,585 copies during the 2003-2004 period.[21] The circulation of the magazine was 448,000 copies during the 2007–2008 period.[22] In 2009, its circulation was 424,385 copies.[23][24] In 2013, the magazine had a circulation of 431,865 copies.[25] Its circulation fell to 408,361 copies in 2014.[26]
^abAnton Shekhovtsov (2009). "Aleksandr Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism: The New Right à la Russe".Religion Compass.3 (4):697–716.doi:10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00158.x.
^abSusan 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.
