Paris Soir

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Paris Soir

description French newspaper
language French
First edition 4th October 1923
attitude August 17, 1944
founder Eugène Merle
Sold edition 2,500,000 copies
ISSN (print) 1256-0421

Paris-Soir was a French daily newspaper for the Paris region , founded by Eugène Merle .

history

Its first edition was published on October 4, 1923. It was published between 1923 and 1944 and had a circulation of up to 2.5 million copies. From December 22, 1935 to September 16, 1939, a Sunday edition called Paris-soir dimanche was also published . After June 11, 1940, its editor, Jean Prouvost , continued to publish it in Vichy France : In Clermont-Ferrand , Lyon , Marseille and Vichy during the occupation of Paris (June 1940 - August 1944) under German control from June 22, 1940 until August 17, 1944.

In 1937 the newspaper had a circulation of 1.8 million copies and immediately before the occupation of Paris, the Paris Soir had a total circulation of 2.5 million copies, making it the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in Europe . Pierre-Antoine Cousteau , brother of the oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was one of its editors .

Characteristic

In 1931 it caused a revolution in the French newspaper scene when a total of nine photographs were placed on its front page. Provoust had a special talent for bringing in the best journalists for his work and the Paris Soir soon had a good reputation as a journalism school. In 1955 there were 38 publishers and editors-in-chief in France alone, all of whom had gone through the Paris Soir school . Albert Camus , the well-known author and later Nobel Prize for Literature, began his journalistic career with this daily newspaper. Georges Simenon , the author of the Maigret series, worked here as a crime reporter . The most respected and popular writers in France of the 1930s published in the Paris-Soir : u. a. Francis Carco , Blaise Cendrars , Colette , Jean Cocteau , Pierre Mac Orlan , André Maurais and François Mauriac . But the Austrian journalist Anton Zischka also worked for Paris Soir . Well-known journalists for the daily newspaper were Titaÿna , Emmanuel Bove , Georges Cravenne , Raoul de Roussy de Sales and Indro Montanelli ; the composers Georges Auric and Pierre Octave Ferroud worked there as music critics, while André Zucca made an ambivalent name for himself as a press photographer. At that time, Pierre Lazareff was responsible for the newspaper's success.

At the time, contemporaries accused Lazareff of being subliminally responsible for the Americanization of the newspaper by relying on large, shocking headlines . Another strength of the newspaper was its independence from foreign investors and the political pressure of foreign embassies, which made it equally dangerous for their foreign policy. In addition, hardly any other French daily newspaper of the 1930s relied so much on sports coverage, especially of the prestigious Tour de France , by employing 40 employees to meet and ultimately even exceed the requirements of L'Auto . In 1934 the technical effort reached a new level: two planes, five cars, five motorcycles and a belinograph car were parked for the Tour de France.

literature

  • Raymond Barillon: Le cas Paris-Soir . Paris 1960
  • Marc Martin: Médias et journalistes de la République . Odile Jacob, Paris 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raymond Kuhn: The Media in France . Routledge, London 2002, p. 18.
  2. ↑ z. For example: Kathrin Engel: German cultural policy in occupied Paris 1940–1944: film and theater . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2003. p. 171.
  3. ^ Allan Mitchell: Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944 . Berghahn Books, New York 2010, p. 122.
  4. ^ Herbert Rutledge Southworth: Guernica! Guernica !: A study of journalism, diplomacy, propaganda, and history . University of California Press, Berkeley 1977, p. 408.
  5. ^ Jens Ivo Engels : Brief history of the third French republic (1870-1940) . UTB Böhlau, Cologne 2007, p. 170ff.
  6. ^ Neil Heims: Biography of Albert Camus . In: Harold Bloom: Albert Camus . Philadelphia 2003, p. 26.
  7. ↑ Here he wrote a series of articles entitled Around the World in Eighty Days Following Phileas Fogg's Journey. See Stéphane Groueff: My Odyssey . New York 2003, p. 208.
  8. ↑ Chun-Shik Kim: East Asia between fear and admiration: the popular German image of East Asia of the 1930s and 40s in travelogues from the Japanese empire . Hamburg 2001, p. 63.
  9. ^ Johannes Wetzel: Dispute in Paris over idyllic Nazi photos . In: Die Welt , April 25, 2008
  10. ↑ Clyde Thogmartin: The national daily press of France . Birmingham 1998, p. 123.
  11. ↑ Clyde Thogmartin: The national daily press of France . Birmingham 1998, p. 124.
  12. ↑ Clyde Thogmartin: The national daily press of France . Birmingham 1998, p. 125.
  13. ^ Theodore Zeldin: A History of French Passions 1848-1945: Intellect, taste and anxiety . Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993, p. 536.
  14. ^ Christopher S. Thompson: The Tour de France: A Cultural History . University of California Press, Berkeley / London 2008, p. 42.
  15. ↑ Judith Keilbach: Fasten your seatbelt! Moving images of flying . Münster 2009, p. 80.