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Paris-Soir
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Key facts
- Newspaper.name
- Paris-soir
- Newspaper.type
- Daily newspaper
- Newspaper.image
- PARIS-SOIR-3-09-1939.jpg
- Newspaper.image_size
- 250
- Newspaper.caption
- Front page, 3 September 1939, France Declares War on Germany
- Newspaper.owners
- Jean Prouvost
- Newspaper.founders
- Eugène Merle
- Newspaper.founded
- 4 October 1923
- Newspaper.ceased_publication
- 17 August 1944
- Newspaper.headquarters
- Paris
- Newspaper.circulation
- 2,500,000 (1940) 300,000 (1942)
- Newspaper.sister_newspapers
- Paris-soir DimancheParis-Midi
- Newspaper.ISSN
- 1256-0421
- Newspaper.publishing_country
- France
- Newspaper.political_position
- Extreme left (pre-1930)Right-wing (1930—1940)Collaborationism (1940—1944)
- Newspaper.language
- French
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- daily newspaper
- Owned by
- Jean Prouvost
- Country of origin
- France
- Official website
- www.retronews.fr/ark:/12148/cb34519208g/notice
- Image
- Paris-Soir-Titular.jpg
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- language of work or name
- French
- title
- Paris-Soir
- inception
- 1923-01-01
- Commons category
- Paris-soir
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1943-05-26
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Paris-soir () was a French newspaper founded in 1923 and published until 1944 when it was banned for having been a collaborationist newspaper during the war.
== Publication history == The first issue of Paris-soir came out on 4 October 1923, founded by the anarchist Eugène Merle. The paper's early years as a vehicle of radical left ideas proved financially untenable, and it was sold in 1930 to businessman Jean Prouvost, who immediately turned it into a populist evening newspaper, it's politics radically changing to a staunch conservative stance, although distinctly anti-fascist in comparison to other right-wing publications. Prouvost also attempted to bring the French newspaper industry up to date by introducing elements that had long become popular in the United States and Britain, including crossword puzzles, comic strips and features for women.
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