Paris-Soir
Paris - Soir was a French daily newspaper for the region of Paris, founded by Eugène Merle.
History
Your first issue was published on October 4, 1923. She appeared in the years 1923 to 1944 and reached a circulation of up to 2.5 million units. From December 22 1935 to September 16, appeared in 1939, a Sunday edition called Paris - soir dimanche. After June 11, 1940 published its editor, Jean Prouvost, they continue in Vichy France: Clermont -Ferrand, Lyon, Marseille, and Vichy during the occupation of Paris (June 1940 - August 1944 ) under German control from June 22, 1940 until 17 August 1944.
1937 the newspaper had been a circulation of 1.8 million copies and immediately before the occupation of Paris, the Paris - Soir reached a total circulation of 2.5 million copies and was the top-selling daily newspaper in Europe. Its editors also included Pierre -Antoine Cousteau, brother of the marine explorer Jacques -Yves Cousteau.
Characteristics
In 1931 she had made in the French newspaper scene for a revolution than a total of nine photographs were placed on its front page. Provoust a special talent had to use the best journalists for his work and the Paris - Soir soon had a reputation as a school of journalism. 1955 were counted only 38 publishers and editors in France, all of which were passed through the school of Paris - Soir. Albert Camus, the famous author and later Nobel Prize for Literature, his journalistic career began in this newspaper. Georges Simenon, the author of the Maigret series, worked here as a crime reporter. The hochangesehensten and most popular writers of the 1930s in France, published in Paris - Soir: ua Francis Carco, Blaise Cendrars, Colette, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Mac Orlan, André Maurais and François Mauriac. But the Austrian journalist Anton Zischka worked for Paris Soir. Well-known journalists of the newspaper were Titaÿna, Emmanuel Bove, Georges Cravenne, Raoul de Roussy de Sales and Indro Montanelli; the composer Georges Auric and Pierre Octave Ferroud worked there as a music critic, while André Zucca made a name ambivalent as a press photographer. In that phase Pierre Lazareff was responsible for the success of the newspaper.
Contemporaries accused at that time to be Lazareff subliminally responsible for the Americanization of the newspaper by sat on large foil made shocking headlines. Another strength of the newspaper was their independence from foreign investors and the political pressure of foreign embassies, what they made equally dangerous for their foreign policy. In addition, more than any other French daily newspaper of the 30s put so much on the sports coverage in particular the prestigious Tour de France by a ansetzte it alone 40 employees to gather the requirements of L'Auto and eventually even surpass. 1934 reached a new level of technical complexity: two aircraft, five cars, five motorcycles and a Belinographwagen you set for the Tour de France from.