Le Figaro is one of the leading
French morning daily
newspapers. Its editorial line is
conservative and has generally been supportive of the
Rally for the Republic political party and its successor, the
Union for a Popular Movement. Its circulation was 342,445 in 2005 (365,682 in 2002).The
Parisian paper was founded as a satirical weekly in
1826, taking its name and
motto from
Le Mariage de Figaro, a play by
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. (The motto, "Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur" translates as "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no true praise".) It was published somewhat irregularly until
1854, when it was taken over by Hippolyte de Villemessant. By
1866 it had gained the greatest circulation of any newspaper in France; its first daily edition, that of
16 November 1866 sold 56,000 copies.
Albert Wolff,
Émile Zola,
Alphonse Karr and
Jules Claretie were among the paper's early contributors.
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