''Le Gaulois'' () was a French daily newspaper, founded in 1868 by Edmond Tarbé and

Henry de Pène Henry de Pène (1830–1888) was a French journalist and novelist. He was a journalist for ''Le Figaro''. He was opposed to the Republic. He was nearly killed in a duel with Robert Hyenne, the editor-in-chief of ''Démocratie du Midi'', a left-wi ...

. After a printing stoppage, it was revived by Arthur Meyer in 1882 with notable collaborators Paul Bourget, Alfred Grévin,

Abel Hermant Abel Hermant (3 February 1862 – 29 September 1950) was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie française. Life and career Hermant was born in Paris, the son of an architect. He received a degree from t ...

, and

Ernest Daudet Louis-Marie Ernest Daudet (; 31 May 1837 – 21 August 1921) was a French journalist, novelist and historian. Prolific in several genres, Daudet began his career writing for magazines and provincial newspapers all over France. His younger brothe ...

. Among its many famous contributing editors was

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

. Gaston Leroux's novel '' The Phantom of the Opera'' was first published as a serialization in its pages between September 1909 and January 1910. The paper was taken over by ''

Le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French Newspaper of recor ...

'' in 1929.

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Digitized Issues of ''Le Gaulois'' from 5 July 1868 to 30 March 1929
from Gallica, the digital library of the

Bibliothèque Nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national reposito ...

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