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 Front pages ofLe Parisien (regional) andAujourd'hui en France (national) on 12 September 2016. While both editions carry the same main story, several side headlines are different. | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | LVMH |
| Founded | 1944; 81 years ago (1944) |
| Political alignment | Neutral[1] |
| Language | French |
| Headquarters | 15th arrondissement of Paris |
| Circulation | 180,854 (as of 2020) |
| ISSN | 0767-3558 |
| Website | www |
Le Parisien (pronounced[ləpaʁizjɛ̃];lit. 'The Parisian') is a French dailynewspaper covering both international and national news, and local news ofParis and its suburbs. Since 2015, Le Parisien has been owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, better known asLVMH, belonging to French billionaireBernard Arnault.[2]
The paper was established asLe Parisien libéré (pronounced[ləpaʁizjɛ̃libeʁe];lit. 'The Freed Parisian') byÉmilien 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 theFrench underground during theGerman occupation of France in World War II.[4]
The name was changed to the current one in 1986.[3] A national edition exists, calledAujourd'hui en France (pronounced[oʒuʁdɥiɑ̃fʁɑ̃s];lit. 'Today in France').
LVMH acquired the paper fromÉditions Philippe Amaury in 2015.[5]
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 thepresidential election.[3] In the period of 1995–1996 the paper had a circulation of 451,159 copies.[7]
The combined circulation ofLe 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] behindOuest-France, which had a circulation of about 800,000 copies. The circulation ofLe 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[13] |
