La Gazette

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Gazette de France edition of December 26, 1786

The La Gazette or Gazette de France was the first French newspaper in 1631 on the initiative of Richelieu by Théophraste Renaudot was founded.

The newspaper appeared weekly from Friday May 30, 1631, monthly from 1678 to 1714 and was available until 1915. From 1762 it had the title Gazette de France . The content of the newspaper consisted of a mixture of politics, poetry and music as well as slightly suggestive court and society reports.

With La Gazette, Renaudot is considered to be the founder of journalism . It was also he who introduced most of the journalistic features, such as news, reports and comments.

Theophraste Renaudot the founder of La Gazette

Before the advent of the printed newspaper, reports on current events were mostly only circulated as handwritten papers. As France's first print medium, La Gazette quickly became the center for news dissemination, making it an excellent means of managing the flow of information in a highly centralized state like the Ancien Régime . Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII. supported the Gazette. Among the early members of the committee to oversee La Gazette were Pierre d'Hozier (1592-1660), Vincent Voiture , Guillaume Bautru (1588-1665), and Gautier de Costes de La Calprenède . The aim of La Gazette was to inform its readers about social events from the court , Société de Cour and abroad. The newspaper was primarily focused on political and diplomatic matters. The price for the government-sponsored Gazette in the annual subscription was 12 livres in 1774 and 15 livres in 1785.

As a press organ of the royal government, there was no reference in the Gazette to the events of the French Revolution , not even to the assault on the Bastille on Tuesday July 14, 1789. In order to ultimately satisfy his readers, the then editor of the Gazette Charles-Joseph Panckoucke published a supplement entitled Le Gazettin or Gazettchen with a summary of the discussions on the constituent national assembly , Assemblée nationale constituante . Panckouke was a prominent and wealthy publisher of books and magazines. Shortly after the French Revolution, he also founded newspapers such as the Mercure de France and, in November 1789, Le Moniteur universel . There were also other newspapers such as La Gazette , Le Journal de Bruxelles and Le Journal de Genève .

literature

  • Pascal Ory : La nouvelle droite fin de siècle. In Nouvelle histoire des idées politiques (dir. P. Ory), Hachette Pluriel 1987, pp. 457-465.
  • Harcourt Brown: History and the Learned Journal. Journal of the History of Ideas (University of Pennsylvania Press) (1972) 33 (3): 365-378. doi : 10.2307 / 2709041 . JSTOR 2709041.
  • Raphael Levy: The Daily Press in France. The Modern Language Journal (Blackwell Publishing) (1929) 13 (4): 294-303. doi : 10.2307 / 315897 . JSTOR 31589

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dictionnaire des journalistes (1600-1789). Accueil 677 Theophraste RENAUDOT (1586–1653)
  2. ^ Harcourt Brown: History and the Learned Journal. Journal of the History of Ideas (University of Pennsylvania Press) (1972) 33 (3): 365-378. doi : 10.2307 / 2709041 . JSTOR 2709041
  3. ^ Karin Angelike: Louis-Francois Mettra. Böhlau 2002 ISBN 3-4121-3301-9 , p. 14