CompteurFrench Daily Newspapers
French Daily Newspapers
Aujourd’hui en France was first launched in 1994. It is the national version of the local newspaper Le Parisien. It is one of the highest selling daily newspapers in France but some people say it’s too much like a tabloid.
Le Figaro was established on the 15th of January 1826 by Maurice Alhoy and Etienne Arago. This makes it one of the oldest newspapers still to be published today.
At first, it was a weekly newspaper but became a daily newspaper in 1866.
L’Humanité is a communist newspaper, founded in 1904 by the socialist leader, Jean Jaurès.
The first issue came out on the 18th of April that same year.
For Jean Jaurès, its founder, this daily newspaper should have been a tool to unite the French socialist movement and later to have been used for the revolutionary struggle against capitalism.
Nowadays, sales are dropping and profits are not good. The newspaper needs to call for support to avoid closing down.
Libération was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1973. The first issue was published on the 18th of April that same year. The name comes from another newspaper of the same name from the time of the Resistance.
Le Monde was founded in 1944 by Hubert Beuve-Méry. It is an evening newspaper which is printed in the afternoon with the following day’s date.
It is the French daily newspaper that sells most copies aboard with sales of 40 000 copies each day. 
Les Echos is the French financial and economic newspaper founded in 1908 by brothers Robert and Emile Servan-Schreiber. The first issues were monthly, four pages long. However, it became a daily publication twenty years later. It is nowadays one of the most respected economic newspapers in France
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