''Le Quotidien de Paris'' was a French
newspaper
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founded in 1974 by . Along with ' and ', ''Le Quotidien de Paris'' made up the (Daily Press Group) which employed over 550 individuals,
[" Philippe Tesson : « Mes trois critères d'appréciation » ", in ''Je réussis mon entretien d'embauche'', Marie-Françoise Guignard and ]Jean-Pierre Thiollet
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, Paris, Ed. Amarande, 1991 and 1993, Ed. Jean-Cyrille Godefroy, 1995, p. 112. with nearly all press organs now defunct. Philippe Tesson intended for it to be the successor to the daily newspaper ''
Combat'', of which he had been the editor-in-chief between 1960 and 1964. ''Combat'' included articles and editorials from a variety of opinions, as well as an in-depth coverage of cultural events in Paris. The survival of ''Le Quotidien de Paris'' during the 1980s and '90s was largely due to the success of another paper from the same publishing group, ''Le Quotidien du Médecin'', which was run by Tesson's wife, Marie-Claude Tesson-Millet. In 1991 it distributed 35,000 newspapers across France. Its last issue appeared in 1996.
History
* 4 April 1974 – Philippe Tesson launched ''Le Quotidien de Paris''.
* 1978 – Publication was temporarily suspended, due to limited distribution and financial resources.
* 27 November 1979 – Reappeared at newsagents, although with a modest distribution, which was viewed as elitist. Had a substantially better financial situation.
* 1981 – After the first election of François Mitterrand as President of the Republic, ''Le Quotidien de Paris'' emerged as one of the only opposition newspapers. Consequently, circulations rose to around 70,000 copies.
* 1983 – During a protest movement sparked by over private schooling funded by the state, circulation reached over 100,000 copies.
* June 1993 – During an economic crisis, and a particular bad period for the French press, a refinancing allowed continual publication. This was largely thanks to Banque Verne and
GAN.
* 19 October 1994 – La société d'édition du Quotidien was liquidized.
* February 1995 – After the rights to the title of the paper were purchased by a partnership of Nicolas Miguet and Entreprendre Robert Lafont, the paper was rapidly replaced with a new, cheaper version, following the lead of other French papers.
* 14 November 1996 – The publication of the last copy of ''Le Quotidien de Paris'' under that title.
Editorial stance
Le ''Quotidien de Paris'' adopted a polemical, but diverse, stance from its inception. It included a number of right-leaning journalists, along with many old journalists from ''Combat'' and ''
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'', which were more left-leaning. Shortly after the election of
François Mitterrand, when Tesson adopted his stance with the opposition, several journalists left for ''
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'' and ''L'Événement du Jeudi'', citing the shift in editorial stance as going against their conscience. From this point on, the paper leaned strongly to the right.
After being purchased by Nicolas Miguet, the paper leaned increasingly towards the extreme right, as exemplified by the ideas of
Bruno Mégret
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, at the time the second in command of the
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of
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. None of the journalists still working for the paper remained on the team after this purchase and transition.
Journalists
''Le Quotidien de Paris'' had many journalists, among them
Henry Chapier
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,
Claire Chazal
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,
Laurence Cossé,
Pierre Daix,
Jean-Pierre Thiollet
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and
Éric Zemmour
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.
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