Le Petit Parisien

Le Petit Parisien (The Little Parisian) was the most popular journal of the Third Republic .

Title page with Carnival in Paris, 1896

The daily first appeared on October 15, 1876. For 20 years it only just survived the tough competition in the press landscape. In October 1901 Eugène Letellier decided to bring out the Petit Parisien with six instead of four pages in order to catch up with his competitor Le Matin . Despite the efforts, the journal did not become the leader.

On June 10, 1940, the newspaper relocated to Bordeaux and returned to Wehrmacht- occupied Paris on October 8 . On February 10, 1941, the German military government transformed the newspaper into a propaganda tool. In 1944 the newspaper was closed for collaboration with the enemy . After the liberation of France, the newspaper appeared again from January 6, 1945 for a few months in Constance , still under the direction of Claude Jeantet.

literature

• Francine Amaury: Histoire du plus grand quotidien de la IIIême République. Le Petit Parisien 1876-1944 .

Web links

Commons : Le Petit Parisien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the Archives des Petit Parisien ( Memento of October 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (fr.), Collected in the Archives Nationales accessed February 5, 2008 (PDF file; 13 kB)
• Supplément littéraire du Petit Parisien 1876 ​​to 1942 Le Petit Parisien available in Gallica , the BnF's digital library