Le Figaro Magazine Explained

Category:News magazine
Frequency:Weekly
Publisher:Société du Figaro S.A.
Company:Groupe Figaro
Country:France
Based:Paris
Language:French
Website:Le Figaro Magazine
Issn:0184-9336

Le Figaro Magazine is a French language weekly news magazine published in Paris, France. The magazine is the weekly supplement of the daily newspaper French: [[Le Figaro]] and has been in circulation since 1978.

History

The magazine is the first supplement of Le Figaro newspaper.[1] It was established in 1978,[2] [3] when Le Figaro Littéraire was renamed as Le Figaro Magazine.[4] Louis Pauwels was functional in its start[5] [6] and was appointed its director. His daughter, Marie-Claire Pauwels, worked as fashion director of the magazine from 1980 to 2006.[7]

The magazine is part of the Figaro Group which also owns the daily newspaper Le Figaro and the magazines Le Particulier and Madame Figaro Magazine.[8] [9] [10] Le Figaro Magazine is published by Société du Figaro S.A. on a weekly basis and is sold with Le Figaro on Saturdays.[11]

The headquarters of Le Figaro Magazine is in Paris.[11] It provides articles on news about political events and current affairs.[12] The weekly also features articles concerning art, music and literature.[12]

served as the editor-in-chief of the weekly.[13]

Profile

The magazine has a right-wing stance as Le Figaro.[14] One of the concepts the magazine opposes is cosmopolitanism, which refers to non-European immigration to France. The weekly supported the New Right movement in France.[15] Some members of the GRECE, an ethnonationalist think-tank, sit on the editorial team of the magazine.[16] [17] Louis Pauwels, who directed and founded the magazine, was a member of GRECE,[5] and Alain de Benoist, founder of the organization, was also one of the regular contributors.[18] This close connection between the magazine and GRECE continued until 1980.[19] Although the magazine remained loyal to its conservative stance, it began to support for neoliberalism.[19]

Controversy

In 1995 Le Figaro Magazine and Le Figaro newspaper were sentenced to pay damages following the publication of an article by Victor Loupan which claimed that the Harvard University academics were destroying the French literature. Specific targets of the criticism were two American literary scholars, Susan Rubin Suleiman and Alice Jardine, who sued the publications.[20]

Circulation

By the end of 1979, Le Figaro Magazine had nearly half a million readers.[21] The magazine sold 497,585 copies during the 2003-2004 period.[22] The circulation of the magazine was 448,000 copies during the 2007–2008 period.[23] In 2009, its circulation was 424,385 copies.[24] [25] In 2013, the magazine had a circulation of 431,865 copies.[26] Its circulation fell to 408,361 copies in 2014.[27]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Le Figaro Magazine moves to Méthode. 10 May 2015. EidosMedia. Paris. 28 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518065706/http://www.eidosmedia.com/2014/10/07/news/methode-figaro-magazine_dgigxjbbrPi2FMEQbd0WHJ.html. 18 May 2015. dead.
  2. Book: Michael Palmer. Jeremy Tunstall. Media Moguls. Routledge. 2006. 978-1-134-93734-9. 148. London; New York.
  3. Book: Alex Hughes. Keith A Reader. Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture. 2002. Routledge. 978-1-134-78866-8. 213. London; New York.
  4. Web site: Société du Figaro S.A. - Company Profile. Reference for Business. 10 May 2015.
  5. Anton Shekhovtsov. Aleksandr Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism: The New Right à la Russe. 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00158.x. Religion Compass. 2009. 3. 4. 697–716.
  6. News: Anne Boulay. Louis Pauwels: Figaro-ci, dérapages-là. Le fondateur du "Figaro Magazine" est mort hier à 76 ans. Libération. 29 January 1997. 10 May 2015. fr.
  7. News: Natasha Montrose. Marie-Claire Pawels, Le Figaro Editor, Dies at 66. 10 May 2015. Women's Wear Daily. 23 May 2011. Paris.
  8. Web site: Our Vision. The Figaro Group. 10 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150611062257/http://www.figaromedias.fr/en/content/our-vision. 11 June 2015. dead.
  9. News: Felicia Greiff. After Taking On Blockers, Le Figaro Group Partners With AppNexus. 28 June 2016. MediaPost. 25 March 2016.
  10. Web site: Figaro Group. Groupe Dassault. 10 May 2015.
  11. Web site: Le Figaro Magazine. Publicitas. 10 May 2015.
  12. Web site: Le Figaro Magazine. LexisNexis. 10 May 2015.
  13. News: Change of leadership at French daily Le Figaro stirs rumours. 10 May 2015. Expatica. 12 July 2012.
  14. News: Fabien Jannic-Cherbonnel. French weekly magazines review. 10 May 2015. Radio France Internationale. 2 February 2014.
  15. Book: Charles Tshimanga. Ch. Didier Gondola. Peter J. Bloom. Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France. https://books.google.com/books?id=9cFcGBnpc-oC&pg=PA261. 2009. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-00390-4. 261. Let the Music Play: The African Diaspora, Popular Culture, and National Identity in Contemporary France. Charles Tshimanga. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN.
  16. Book: James Shields. The Extreme Right in France: From Pétain to Le Pen. 2007. 269. Routledge. 978-1-134-86110-1. London; New York.
  17. Book: Richard F. Kuisel. The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power. 2012. 74. Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-15181-6. Princeton, NJ.
  18. News: Thomas Sheehan. Paris: Moses and Polytheism. The New York Review of Books. 24 January 1980. 10 May 2015.
  19. Nathalie Krikorian. Européanisme, nationalisme, libéralisme dans les éditoriaux de Louis Pauwels (Figaro-Magazine, 1977-1984). CNRS. 1986. 12. 12. fr.
  20. Susan Rubin Suleiman. Big bad wolf: A short chapter in the long story of Franco‐American relations. Sites. 2000. 4. 1. 145-151. 10.1080/10260210008456018.
  21. Book: Tomislav Sunic. Against Democracy and Equality. 2011. Arktos. 978-1-907166-25-9. 66.
  22. Book: E. Martin. Marketing Identities Through Language: English and Global Imagery in French Advertising. 2005. . 978-0-230-51190-3. 6. London; New York.
  23. Web site: Anne Austin. etal. Western Europe Market & Media Fact. ZenithOptimedia. 10 May 2015. 2008. dead. 5 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150205131709/http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20%26%20MediaFact%202008.pdf.
  24. Book: Raymond Kuhn. The Media In Contemporary France. 2011. McGraw-Hill Education. 978-0-335-23622-0. 4. Berkshire.
  25. Web site: World Magazine Trends 2010/2011. FIPP. 10 May 2015. dead. 2 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165145/http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf.
  26. Web site: Market Data. France. Media Passport. 10 May 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094107/http://www.mandmglobal.com/media-passport/france/market-data.aspx?iframe=true. 2 April 2015.
  27. Web site: Presse Magazine. OJD. 10 May 2015. dead. 19 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150319120727/http://www.ojd.com/Chiffres/La-Presse/La-Presse-Payante/Presse-Magazine.

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