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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Moïse Polydore Millaud Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni |
Publisher | Moïse Polydore Millaud |
Founded | 1895 |
Political alignment | Conservatism |
Ceased publication | 1944 |
Headquarters | Paris |
Circulation | 1,000,000 (1890s) daily |
ISSN | 1256-0464 |
Le Petit Journal was a conservative daily Parisian newspaper founded by Moïse Polydore Millaud; published from 1863 to 1944. Together with Le Petit Parisien, Le Matin, and Le Journal, it was one of the four major French dailies. In 1890, during the Boulangiste crisis, its circulation first reached one million copies. Five years later, it had a circulation of two million copies, making it the world's largest newspaper.[1]