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Le Parisien

French daily newspaper

Field	Value
name	Le Parisien
logo	Le Parisien logo.svg
image	Le Parisien front pages, 12 September 2016.jpg
caption	Front pages of Le Parisien (regional) and Aujourd'hui en France (national) on 12 September 2016. While both editions carry the same main story, several side headlines are different.
type	Daily newspaper
format	Tabloid
founded
owners	LVMH
political_position	Neutral
language	French
headquarters	15th arrondissement of Paris
circulation	180,854
circulation_date	2020
website
ISSN	0767-3558

Le Parisien () is a French newspaper that covers international and national news as well as local news from the Paris area. It has been a subsidiary of Bernard Arnault's LVMH since 2015.

History and profile

The paper was established as Le Parisien libéré (; ) by Émilien Amaury in 1944, and was published for the first time on 22 August 1944. The paper was originally launched as the organ of the French underground during the German occupation of France in World War II.

The name was changed to the current one in 1986. A national edition exists, called Aujourd'hui en France (; ).

LVMH acquired the paper from Éditions Philippe Amaury in 2015.

Circulation

Le Parisien had a circulation near to one million copies in the early 1970s. The paper reached a circulation of 659,200 copies on 24 April 1995, the day after the first round of the presidential election.

The combined circulation of Le Parisien was 485,000 copies in 2001. The paper had a circulation of 147,143 copies and a combined circulation of 360,505 copies in 2002. It was the second largest regional newspaper in France with a combined circulation of 530,000 copies in 2008, behind Ouest-France, which had a circulation of about 800,000 copies. The circulation of Le Parisien was 229,638 copies in 2014. The circulation of Le Parisien was 264,952 copies in 2020.

Year	Circulation
2016	208,978
2017	207,386
2018	196,226
2019	187,041
2020	180,854
2021	182,291
2022	185,558
2023	188,118
DDM 01/2024	200,130

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20150521234505/http://fr.reuters.com/article/idFRLDE6970OD20101008 "Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France est et doit rester un grand quotidien populaire et généraliste de qualité. Il tient à préserver sa ligne éditoriale, faite de neutralité politique et de proximité avec son lectorat"] (archived 21 May 2015) {{in lang. fr. ''Reuters''.
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