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Word: journaux (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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French papers are now of two kinds: the political papers, belonging to the parties, and the journaux d'information, the moneymaking, straight-news sheets. Today, in a city only slightly larger than Chicago, 30 dailies decorate the gay kiosks of the Parisian boulevards. Outstanding among them are the Communist-tinted Ce Soir (circ. 536,000), which concentrates on a robust sports section; Combat (circ. 165,000), generally conceded to be the most stylishly written; the Communist L'Humanité, a pamphleteering paper with a circulation of 470,000; and France-Soir and Paris-Presse (527,000 apiece), which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Poor but Honest | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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