Moïse Polydore Millaud

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Moïse Millaud after 1863

Moïse Polydore Millaud , also Moses Polydore Millaud or Moïse Millaud (born August 27, 1813 in Bordeaux ; died October 13, 1871 in Paris ) was a French banker, writer, journalist and newspaper publisher who founded the Paris daily newspaper from 1863 Le Petit Journal published.

Live and act

Millaud came from a family of Jewish merchants who originally traded horses. Since his family was poor, he only received a simple education and initially worked as a clerk for a bailiff. He opened his first newspaper, Le Lutin, in his native town in 1833 . (According to other data in 1830)

In 1835 or 1836 he came to Paris, where he founded the newspaper Le Gamin de Paris , followed by Le Négociateur , a commercial paper . Both were not very successful. The newspaper L'Audience , which he founded in 1839, devoted itself exclusively to court cases, it competed with the Gazette des Tribunaux . The newspaper La Liberté , which he published, supported Louis Napoleon's interests and was soon closed again. Together with Jules Mirès, he published the industry and financial journal Le Journal des Chemins de Fer . Together they also founded the banking institutes "Caisses des Actions Réunies" and the "Caisse Générale des Chemins de Fer". In 1857 he acquired the rights to the newspaper La Presse . Millaud also wrote his own articles under the pseudonym Duallim (an anagram of the name Millaud). He had at least two sons Albert , who became a journalist, writer and playwright, and Alfonso and a daughter Blanche, who married George Silva, the editor of the Journal des Voyageurs .

In 1859 he and Louis-François Nicolaïe (pseudonym: Clairville ) wrote under the pseudonym Frascati the play Ma nièce et mon ours , a fun vaudeville in three acts that was performed at the Palais Royal Theater. After his death, his sons Albert and Alfonso and one of his nephews took over the Le Petit Journal . They were financially supported by Émile de Girardin . Millaud developed new ideas for marketing newspapers in 1863. Millaud brought out a new daily newspaper under the name Le Petit Journal , which was affordable for everyone at a very low price of 5 centimes, which became a success and saw the circulation increase sharply. Other newspapers were Le Journal Illustré , Le Soleil and Le Journal des Voyageurs .

Publications

Millaud was involved in the publication of several newspapers, some of which he had founded himself.

  • 1830 or 1833: Le Lutin
  • 1835/36: Le Gamin de Paris
  • 1836: Le Flâneur
  • 1838: Le Négociateur
  • 1839: L'Audience
  • 1845 or 1848: La Liberté , Le Journal des Chemins de fer and Le Conseiller du peuple
  • 1856: Le Journal des actionnaires
  • 1857: La Presse
  • 1863: Le Petit Journal
Theatrical fonts
  • with Clairville: Ma nièce et mon ours. (= Bibliothèque dramatique. Théâtre modern.) M. Levy frères, Paris 1859, OCLC 613147660 . ( online )

literature

  • Henri Thévenin: Les créateurs de la grande presse en France; Émile de Girardin, H. de Villemessant, Moïse Millaud. Éditions Spes, Paris around 1934. OCLC 654715846 .
  • Lucien Pemjean: La Presse et les Juifs. (= Les Juifs en France. ) Les Nouvelles édition françaises, Paris around 1941, OCLC 7189164 . ( online )
  • Edward Berenson: The Trial of Madame Caillaux. University of California Press, Berkeley 1992, pp. 227-232.
  • Pierre Albert: Le Petit Journal In: Encyclopædia Universalis. ( online )
  • Millaud, Moïse Polydore. In: The Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk & Wagnalls, New York, NY / London 1901–1906, Volume 8: Leon – Moravia. ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. L'Univers israélite: Journal des principes conservateurs du judaisme. 1865, ISSN  1146-9285 , p. 197.
  2. Mes origines. Mémoires et récits de Frédéric Mistral Plon-Nourrit. Paris, Chapter IX: La République de 1848.
  3. a b c Millaud, Moïse Polydore. In: The Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk & Wagnalls, New York, NY / London 1901–1906, Volume 8: Leon – Moravia. ( online )
  4. ^ A b c Edmond Antoine Poinsot: Frascati. In: Dictionnaire des pseudonymes. Slatkine Reprints, Geneve 1971, OCLC 221189133 , pp. 159-160. (Reprint of the 1887 edition).
  5. Caisse Générale des Chemins de Fer on scriponet.com