Le Petit Journal

Petit Journal, Le. The first daily newspaper—popular in content, style, and price (1 sou)—to gain lasting success: its average circulation in the 1890s was 1 million. Launched in 1863 as a literary paper, Le Petit Journal long eschewed partisan politics and offered a mix of human-interest stories, romans-feuilletons, and garrulous editorials. The press magnate Moïse-Polydore Millaud organized its production, distribution, and promotion like that of a perishable product to be delivered fresh each morning throughout France. Serial novels were a key ingredient: Ponson du Terrail, Émile Richebourg, Gaboriau, Verne, and Xavier de Montépin adorned its columns. By 1901 the paper was losing appeal: under its chief editor Ernest Judet it deserted political moderation for partisan polemics (anti- Clemenceau, anti- Dreyfusard), and began an inexorable decline.

[Michael Palmer]

Le Petit Journal

Konstantin Stoitzner (1863–1934): „Le petit journal”
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Moïse Polydore Millaud
Publisher	Moïse Polydore Millaud
Founded	1863
Headquarters	Paris
Circulation	1,000,000 <1890s> Daily

Le Petit Journal was a daily Parisian newspaper published from 1863 to 1944. It was founded by Moïse Polydore Millaud. In its columns were published several serial novels of Émile Gaboriau and of Ponson du Terrail.

Contents 1 Publishing 2 Athletic and auto racing competitions 3 Gallery 4 References 5 External links

Publishing

In the 1890s, at the height of its popularity, the newspaper had a circulation of a million copies, and by 1884 it also included a weekly illustrated supplement.

Athletic and auto racing competitions

In 1891 Le Petit Journal created the Paris-Brest-Paris road cycling race.

Le Petit Journal also organized the world's first automobile race: the 1894 Paris-Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition (Concours des Voitures sans Chevaux). The race was won by Count Jules-Albert de Dion on a De Dion-Bouton.

Gallery

10 October 1891. The suicide of Georges Boulanger in Ixelles Cemetery.

19 August 1900. The hosts of France. Mozaffar al-Din, Shah of Persia.

7 October 1906. Lynchings in the United States. Massacre of negroes in Atlanta (Georgia).

References

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External links

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• Every issue of Le Petit Journal from 1863 to 1938, viewable online in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF. (French)

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