Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile at the editorial desk of Ami du Peuple pondered M. Coty, hoping perhaps half-heartedly that he had been able to scoop the charming relict of his late adversary...
That there should be a deep bond of sympathy between brilliant Mme. Dupuy and gallant M. Coty, what with perfumes and charm, is not to be gaped at. Last week Paris was not agape, but agog with rumors of a combination of the journalistic interests of Dupuy and Coty in an enormous merger...
...Dupuy, it was said, would absorb several liberal papers with her Petit Parisien, while M. Coty planned on various expansions and absorptions with his politically-conservative, journalistically-yellow papers. The Dupuy interests are valued at some $15,000,000 while M. Coty likes to be told he is one of the half-dozen richest men in the world...
Both Mme. Dupuy and M. Coty have brought American newspaper ideals into Paris journalism...
...M. Coty owns Figaro and Gaulois, and the new Ami du Peuple, founded some months ago and sold, in spite of bitter opposition by other papers and the news-vending organizations controlled by them, at the cut-rate of two sous. The usual price of a paper in Paris is five sous (25 centimes, about one cent). With headlines that would be called flaring in Paris, with crime stories played up, it was said to have attained already a circulation of around 800,000. However, in France circulations are not audited; so it was equally possible to believe (or doubt...