Word: prouvost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aloof Jean Prou-vost, whose LIFE-like picture weekly, Paris-Match (circ. 1,160,000), is one of the biggest magazines on the Continent, and who also holds financial control of the conservative, respected Figaro (circ. 499-200), oldest daily in France. Among French newsmen and politicos. Publisher Prouvost has been called everything from the "obscene corrupter of the press" to "the savior of the fourth estate." But on one judgment all agree: Prouvost is the king of French publishing...
Last week, in his shabby headquarters near the Champs-Elysées, Publisher Prouvost was getting ready to reinforce his claim to the throne. He and his staff were reviving Marie-Claire, a woman's monthly something like the Ladies' Home Journal that before the war had more than a mil lion readers...
Last week Mme. Cotnareanu threw in the sponge. After selling half her stock to a pro-Brisson group headed by Jean Prouvost, onetime Minister of Information and prewar publishing king of France, she signed a management contract entitling Brisson and his top editors to run the paper for the next 19 years...