L'Aurore (newspaper founded 1944)
| Founded | 11 September 1944 as a daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Political alignment | Centre-right |
| Language | French |
| Ceased publication | 1985 merged with Le Figaro |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
L'Aurore [lo.ʁɔʁ] was a French newspaper first sold on 11 September 1944, soon after the Liberation of Paris. Its name refers to the previous, unrelated publication, L'Aurore (1897–1914). Publication ended in 1985.
During 1943, several issues of L'Aurore were published in secret by
L'Aurore hit newsstands on September 11, 1944. The paper's offices were located in Paris, at 9 rue Louis-le-Grand, which were previously occupied by the news daily
Boussac period
In 1951,
From Jules Romains to Pierre Desproges
In July 1956, L'Aurore was the premier daily featuring color illustrations on the front and back pages.[1] Circulation, which in 1952 had numbered 400,000, increased to more than 500,000 daily subscriptions between 1956 and 1962, which in some years in the period surpassed Le Figaro in total daily circulation.[2]
Renowned among news teams of the era,
Hersant period
In 1978, after Boussac sold the paper to Marcel Fournier (president of supermarket chain Carrefour), the paper was sold again to Robert Hersant. Francine Lazurick vacated her position as managing director in response, as did the editor at the time, Dominique Pado. Pierre Janrot, a member of the Groupe Hersant publishing conglomerate, replaced Lazurick as managing director of L'Aurore on November 3 that year.
Robert Hersant gradually pulled support for the paper, which had previously been a direct competitor to Le Figaro, another Hersant publication. In doing so, he incrementally merged L'Aurore with other publications in the conglomerate. As a result, within several years, L'Aurore had lost its identity as an independent content publication, with the exception of the editorial page, which until 1982 was written by Jacques Guilleme-Brulon (foreign politics) or, more frequently, by Guy Baret (domestic politics). Under their influence, L'Aurore leaned politically rightward in its last days as an independent paper.
In 1985, L'Aurore was integrated fully into Le Figaro, though it survived in title, in the Saturday supplement, Le Figaro-L'Aurore.
Footnotes
- ^ Claude Bellanger, Jacques Godechot, Perre Guiral and Fernand Terrou, Histoire générale de la presse française, Presses universitaires de France, 1976, p.222.
- ^ Claude Bellanger, Jacques Godechot, Perre Guiral and Fernand Terrou, opcit, p.267.
External links
- Underground issues of L'Aurore in BnF.