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Le Journal de l'île de la Réunion ; Le Journal de la Haute-Marne (Haute-Marne) Le Journal de Saône et Loire ; Le Journal du Centre ; Le Maine libre ; Le Parisien (Île-de-France, Oise) Le Petit Bleu d'Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) Le Populaire du Centre (Creuse, Haute-Vienne) Le Progrès (Auvergne, Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Rhône-Alpes)
Le Monde was founded in 1944, [8] [9] at the request of General Charles de Gaulle, after the German army had been driven from Paris during World War II.The paper took over the headquarters and layout of Le Temps, which had been the most important newspaper in France, but its reputation had suffered during the Occupation. [10]
Challenges is a weekly business magazine headquartered in Paris, France. [1] It is owned by Claude Perdriel (60%) and Bernard Arnault (40%) via their groups Presse Perdriel and LVMH . It has an economic liberal editorial stance and supported Emmanuel Macron during the 2017 French presidential election .
During World War I, Le Journal was at the center of an intrigue involving Paul Bolo, the essence of which was that the German government was alleged to be attempting to gain influence in France and promote pacifist propaganda by buying French newspapers. It is understood that during part of its existence it was located at 100 Rue Richelieu Paris.
Before the end of the year 2006, the group La Vie-Le Monde, majority shareholder since 2005 of the group Les Journaux du Midi (Midi Libre, L'Indépendant, Centre Presse), formed a plan to take control of the regional daily papers of the company Groupe Hachette-Filipacchi (Groupe Nice-matin, La Provence) through a holding company with the subsidiary Lagardère.
In January 2014, the owners of Le Monde, Pierre Bergé, Xavier Niel, and Matthieu Pigasse, purchased a 65% stake in the magazine. [12] [13] On 12 March 2014 the two co-directors of the press group, Laurent Joffrin and Nathalie Collin, resigned because the Nouvel Observateur was being sold to Le Monde. [14]
Le Monde diplomatique was founded in 1954 by Hubert Beuve-Méry, founder and director of Le Monde, the French newspaper of record.Subtitled the "organ of diplomatic circles and of large international organisations, [12]" 5,000 copies were distributed, comprising eight pages, dedicated to foreign policy and geopolitics.
Pascale Santi of Le Monde wrote that it was the "clan war in the Servan-Schreiber family that had led to the sale of the newspaper". [6] Les Echos was sold to Pierre and Jacqueline Beytout in 1963, who had only one objective: to make the newspaper a "genuine" economic daily with an international perspective. [6]