Le Journal

Journal, Le. In 1892 Fernand Xau launched a popular daily, offering the cream of French writing for 5 centimes. Barrès, Léon Daudet, Jules Renard, Mirbeau, and Zola contributed to Le Journal, and Allais, Tristan Bernard, and Courteline provided humourous pieces. Elsewhere, however, Daudet and Mirbeau depicted the parvenu manners and politicking of the Belgian businessmen called Letellier who owned the paper. Engaged in a newspaper war with Le Matin, Le Journal became a leading mass-circulation daily. But it never recovered from suspicions that its director, Charles Humbert, had used the paper for arms-trafficking purposes during World War I.

[Michael Palmer]

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