
() was a French daily newspaper, founded in 1868 by
Edmond Tarbé and
Henry de Pène. After a printing stoppage, it was revived by
Arthur Meyer in 1882 with notable collaborators
Paul Bourget,
Alfred Grévin,
Abel Hermant, and
Ernest Daudet. Among its many famous contributing editors was
Guy de Maupassant.
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
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...
'' in 1929.
References
External links
Digitized Issues of from 5 July 1868 to 30 March 1929from
Gallica, the digital library of the
1868 establishments in France
1929 disestablishments in France
Defunct newspapers published in France
Newspapers established in 1868
Publications disestablished in 1929
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